A suicide bombing claimed by the ISIL group killed at least 70 people, mainly pilgrims, south of Baghdad Thursday, in the latest ‘jihadist’ attack as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul. The huge truck bomb blast ripped through a petrol station where buses packed with faithful returning from the Arbaeen ...
The deputy chief of the Popular Mobilization committee in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, announced the end of the fourth stage of operations in western Mosul, adding that the city was separated from the rest of the Iraqi provinces. “We controlled the main highway which links Mosul to the rest of ...