ISIL

A joint operation carried out by Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga troops has "liberated" a 200 sq km area around Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani said. Barzani made the announcement on Monday, following the launch of a major operation to free Iraq's second largest city from the armed group, which has held it since 2014. […]