Militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group were shaving their beards and changing hideouts in Mosul, residents said, as Iraqi forces moved ever closer to the city Wednesday and civilians fled in growing numbers. Residents and military officials said many ISIL gunmen had ...
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they had developed a “suicide drone” capable of delivering explosives to blow up targets at sea and on land. The new drone is primarily for maritime surveillance and “has not been designed to be armed with missiles,” the Tasnim news agency reported. “(But) ...