
Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from Takfiri ISIL terrorists, the minister of displacement and migration said Wednesday. Jassem Mohammed al-Jaff announced that field teams received “26,000 displaced people from (west) Mosul during the past 10 ...

Iraqi special forces are facing “fierce” resistance as they battle the ISIL Takfiri group in southwest Mosul, a commander said on Wednesday. Iraq launched a major push on February 19 to recapture the rest of Mosul from ISIL, retaking the airport and then pushing up from the south. Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism ...