Terrorists from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group offer weak resistance to the offensive of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) supported by Turkish troops in northern Syria and retreat to the south and southeast, Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, first deputy chief of Russian General ...
President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar a-Abadi have agreed to send around 600 extra US troops to Iraq to help in the upcoming Mosul offensive, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday. The leaders have “approved, and they’ve both directed that the United States increase its contingent of forces ...