Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) said Thursday that Iraqi aircraft struck dozens of mostly foreign militants from the ISIL Takfiir group near the border with Syria the previous day. It confirmed that deadly strikes in the Al-Qaim area in the west of the country were carried out by the Iraqi ...
Forces from the Iraqi army retook four villages from the ISIL group northeast of the city of Mosul on Saturday, the Joint Operations Command said. The recapture by the army’s 16th division of the villages between Bashiqa and Mosul clears the way for Iraqi forces to enter the city from ...