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Daesh video shows Iraqi army’s losses in Mosul

Iraqi army and the Shia-dominated Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have suffered heavy losses during the Daesh-led offensive raids in the vicinity of Al-Salam Hospital, Daesh revealed in a video published on its official website. AlkhaleejOnline reported that the video, which was originally published by Daesh’s Amaq news agency, showed that dozens of cars and armoured vehicles were destroyed, some of which belonged to Iraqi forces and the others belonged to […]

9 December 2016

International News

ISIS killed 300 ex-policemen south of Mosul

ISIS probably killed more than 300 Iraqi former police three weeks ago and buried them in a mass grave near the town of Hammam al-Alil south of Mosul, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. A Reuters reporter visited the site of the mass grave, where residents said the militants buried victims who had been shot or beheaded. The residents said they believed up to 200 people were killed in the […]

18 November 2016

International News

ISIS accused of using chemical weapons in northern Iraq

Human Rights Watch has warned that the Islamic State (IS) group is using chemical weapons as it retreats in the face of an operation by Iraqi forces to retake the city of Mosul. According to the organisation, IS launched at least three chemical attacks on the town of Qayyarah, 60km south of Mosul, in September and October after the town was captured by Iraqi forces in August. The attacks, which […]

12 November 2016

International News

100 beheaded bodies discovered in mass grave near Mosul

A mass grave containing 100 decapitated bodies has been discovered inside a school south of the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, according to the Iraqi military, which is conducting a US-backed operation to retake the jihadist stronghold. Iraqi soldiers came across the grave in the School of Agriculture in the town of Hammam al-Alil that was recaptured from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists earlier on Monday, spokesman for Iraq’s […]

8 November 2016

International News

Iraq-Turkey tension rises amid battle for Mosul

Iraq's prime minister has warned Turkey against provoking a confrontation while saying he does not want war. Haider al-Abadi made the comments after Turkey deployed tanks and artillery near the Iraqi border and insisted that any Turkish involvement would be a violation of national soverreignty. Turkey wants a a role in the battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, by virtue of […]

2 November 2016

International News

IS executes dozens of prisoners near Mosul

Islamic State militants have in recent days executed dozens of prisoners taken from villages the group has been forced to abandon by an Iraqi army advance on the city of Mosul, officials in the region said on Wednesday. Most of those killed were former members of the Iraqi police and army who had lived in areas under Islamic State control south of Mosul, Abdul Rahman al-Waggaa, a member of the […]

27 October 2016

International News

60 civilians killed as US-led coalition strikes Mosul residential areas

Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported. “There were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate,” Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday. […]

26 October 2016

International News

Turkey confirms military involvement near Mosul

Turkey has confirmed its troops have fired at positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in a town near Mosul after receiving a request by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters for assistance. Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Sunday Turkey's involvement in the military offensive near Bashiqa, a town east of Mosul. He said that the Kurdish Peshmerga requested Turkey's assistance. ISIL, also known as ISIS, took […]

24 October 2016

International News

Fierce ISIL resistance as Iraqi troops move on Mosul

Iraqi forces launched a third front in the offensive to take back Mosul but ISIL fighters put up stiff resistance, unleashing a wave of vehicle-borne suicide bombers, while leaving a deadly trail of hidden explosive devices. Iraq's government said on Thursday its soldiers advanced from the south and east, while Kurdish Peshmerga fighters moved in from the north and east on the country's second-largest city, now under control of Islamic […]

21 October 2016

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