Iraq announced Thursday that its forces have recaptured a northern town from the ISIL group in an operation launched ahead of a push for the city of Mosul. Security forces began the operation on Tuesday to oust the ISIL group from Sharqat, a town near supply lines needed for the ...
Lebanese army intelligence unit managed on Thursday to arrest Imad Yassin, “emir” of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in the city of Sidon, south of Lebanon. Al-Manar has learned from security sources that Yassin was planning for terrorist ...