Troops of Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service will resume their offensive against the Takfiri ISIL group in east Mosul on Friday after several days of relative quiet, an officer said. The battle to retake the city, the insurgents’ last major bastion in Iraq, is now in its fourth week, and while ...
The Russian military said Friday it has evidence of the use of chemical weapons by militants in Syria’s eastern city of Aleppo. “Experts from the Russian defense ministry have found unexploded artillery ammunition belonging to terrorists which contains toxic substances,” the military said in a statement. “After rapid analysis in ...
