A senior Iraqi commander says fierce clashes between special forces and ISIL militants are taking place in two neighborhoods in eastern Mosul. The head of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces, Gen. Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, told Iraqi state TV on Monday that his forces pushed deeper into the Shurta neighborhood. Al-Asadi described ...
The Iraqi army and security forces, backed by the mobilization troops and allies, managed on Sunday to liberate Al-Andalus and Kafaat neighborhoods in eastern Mosul from ISIL terrorists, inflicting heavy losses upon them and raising the national flags in the areas. The Iraqi warplanes also struck ISIL takfiri militants in ...