Iraqi army and the Hashd Sha’bi forces (Popular Mobilization Forces) managed on Friday to seize full control over the Baghdadi island after liberating it from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, a statement by The Joint Operations read. The national military inflicted ISIL terrorists ...
The US military is requesting authority to send up to 500 new troops to Iraq ahead of a much-anticipated campaign to take back Mosul from Islamic State, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “The new deployment would bring the overall U.S. presence to as high as 6,400,” it said, noting ...
