Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake the town of Sherqat from the ISIL Takfiri group which has controlled it for more than two years, military sources said. The town lies on the west bank of the Tigris river 260 kilometers (160 miles) northwest of Baghdad and around ...
Dozens were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Monday when militants of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group attacked a security headquarters in al-Rutba in western Iraq on the first day of Eid al-Adha, police sources said. “Three policemen were killed ...