Around 90 percent of Syria’s territory has been liberated from terrorist groups, Andrey Novikov, the head of the Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center, told Sputnik. “According to the estimates of the military, 90 percent of Syria’s territory has been freed of terrorist groups, which is a very positive result,” ...
Iraqi forces said Thursday they had retaken the center of ISIL Takfiri group’s stronghold of Hawija and were pushing forward in their assault on one of the last ISIL enclaves in the country. Troops, police and paramilitaries “liberated the whole of the center of Hawija and are continuing their advance,” ...
