Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of ‘weakness’ as tensions rose Wednesday after Ankara deployed tanks and artillery near Iraq. Abadi had warned Ankara not to provoke a confrontation and said any invasion would see Iraq’s northern neighbor repelled after Turkey sent the 30-vehicle convoy ...
A US general said on Thursday that between 800 and 900 ISIL Takfiri militants have been killed since the operation to recapture Iraqi city of Mosul from the terrorists began. “Just in the operations over the last week and a half associated with Mosul, we estimate they’ve probably killed about ...