The ISIL Takfiri group now controls less than seven percent of Iraq, down from the 40 percent it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said Tuesday. “Daesh controlled 40 percent of Iraqi land” in 2014, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command coordinating the ...
Iraq’s command of the joint operations in Mosul said it was not in rush to liberate the western flank of the city, stressing that “it is only a matter of time.” The command spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Rasoul , noted that the operations in west Mosul have been slow ...