Russia on Wednesday warned the US-led coalition against driving extremists from Iraq to Syria in the offensive to recapture Mosul from ISIL. “It is necessary not to drive terrorists from one country to the other but to destroy them on the spot,” the chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov ...
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the battle to oust the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group from Iraq’s second largest city will be “tough” but ultimately successful. “There will be advances and there will be setbacks,” he said at a joint press conference ...
