Iraq’s Defense Minister Khalid al-Obeidi has said that ISIL group leaders and their families have sold their belongings and fled Mosul as Iraqi forces close in on the northern city. Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for an assault on Mosul, the country’s second city that has ...
The Takfiri ISIL group has executed at least 24 civilians after seizing a village in northern Syria from a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, a monitor said Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL executed 24 civilians “in the last 24 hours” after taking Buyir from the Syrian Democratic Forces. ...