Iraqi forces have recaptured nearly 90 percent of west Mosul from the ISIL group after retaking the city’s eastern side earlier this year, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. ISIL still controls “10.5 percent of… the right bank,” Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, told a ...
Four crew members aboard a crashed Japanese military plane were confirmed dead Tuesday, the defense ministry said. The wreckage was found on the northern island of Hokkaido, where the LR-2 reconnaissance craft disappeared from radar Monday near Hakodate airport. It had been flying there to pick up a hospital patient ...
