Elite Iraqi forces on Friday entered a west Mosul neighborhood for the first time since the start four months ago of an operation to retake the city, a commander said. Sami al-Aridhi, a lieutenant general in the Counter-Terrorism Service, said his men had retaken a military base and a village ...
The ISIL Takfiri group carried out an attack on an Iraqi border guard position near Jordan on Friday, killing at least 15 guards, officials said. “Daesh launched an attack with a suicide car bomb and gunmen on the 2nd border guard regiment near Trebil,” an officer in the border guard ...