French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Tuesday that the battle to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL group could take “months”. “It could be a long battle, it’s not a blitzkrieg… It’s a lengthy affair (lasting) several weeks, maybe months,” he told reporters in Paris a day ...
Turkish air force jets joined in the air operation backing Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga to retake Iraq’s second city of Mosul from ‘jihadists’, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Tuesday. “Our air forces took part in the coalition forces’ air operations in Mosul,” Yildirim told his ruling Justice and Development ...
