The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces managed on Saturday to completely isolate Tal Afar district from Syria, cutting off ISIL supply lines from the Syrian territories. Local security sources reported that the Iraqi army, police and mobilization forces moved closer to central Tal Afar and that the Iraqi commanders started escaping ...
At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the foreign backed militants’ blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor ...