A mass grave containing the remains of about 100 beheaded civilians has been discovered inside the School of Agriculture on the outskirts of Hammam AL-Alil town south of Mosul city, Iraq’s military media center said in a statement Monday. “Special teams are being sent to the site to investigate this ...
Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq on Monday said the town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, is under its full control after battle against the ISIL. Bashiqa is about 8 miles northeast of Mosul in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. Rudaw reported Bashiqa was freed from ISIL control soon after municipal government and ...