A senior Iraqi general has said that the city of Mosul will be liberated from the Islamic State “within days” as counterterrorism units close in on the group’s few remaining strongholds, three years after the terror organization declared a “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq.
BERLIN (AP) — A former Iraqi army soldier has admitted at the start of his war-crimes trial in Germany that he posed for a photo holding the severed heads of two Islamic State fighters killed in combat, but said he was only following orders.
The Islamic State organization has reportedly stepped up the use of drones in its campaigns in Iraq and Syria, claiming responsibility for at least 10 airborne attacks carried out last week alone. That number could not be immediately verified.
Senior ISIS leader Abu Abdullah was recently killed in a “work accident” when he was trying to rig a bomb on a roadside in southern Mosul and the device accidentally went off.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has deployed wooden replicas of tanks, Humvees, and even jihadi fighters in a bid to deceive aircraft from the U.S.-led coalition supporting the assault on Mosul.
Conversations on an encrypted chat application used by the Islamic State and its jihadist supporters provide insight into the group’s morale during the battle of Mosul against the Iraqi army and Kurdish militias.
Two years after they withdrew from Mosul broken and defeated, Iraqi forces have capped a dramatic turnaround by reaching the largest city they lost to the Islamic State group.
Islamic State expanded its attacks on Monday against Iraqi army and Kurdish forces to relieve pressure on its militants confronting an offensive on Mosul, its last major urban stronghold in the country.
The Iraqi army pushed into a town near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul on Saturday, a day after dozens of IS militants stormed into the northern city of Kirkuk, setting off two days of clashes and killing at least 80 people, mostly security forces.
U.S.-backed Iraqi troops continue to fight Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Fallujah, days after the Baghdad-based government declared the city to be “liberated” from terrorists.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has restricted Mosul residents’ access to news about the outside world in an effort to insulate civilians and its own fighters from information about the U.S.-backed Iraqi army’s offensive to liberate the city, reports Reuters.
Fox News reports that “members of the broad coalition poised to retake the key city” of Mosul have admitted the long-awaited decisive battle against the Islamic State has stalled because Iraqi forces broke and ran from battle again.
The Iraqi army is struggling in its efforts to retake Mosul in northern Iraq from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed Reuters on Friday, the second day of an offensive described as the beginning of a broader campaign.
Iraq’s U.S.-backed military has launched an offensive to liberate the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The Obama administration is contemplating providing an emergency aid package to the cash-strapped Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq because it has been unable to pay its Peshmerga force, which has received military assistance from Russia.
Iraqi military forces are reportedly moving into position for the long-anticipated offensive to retake the captive city of Ramadi from ISIS, which has responded by threatening to kill Ramadi residents if they raise white flags.
State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf argued that Iraqi forces “do have the will to fight” “when they’re equipped, when they have support” on Wednesday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. Harf was asked if the State Department agreed with Defense Secretary
The UK Guardian reports that Major General Tim Cross, the top British officer overseeing postwar Iraq, agrees with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter’s grim diagnosis of the Iraqi army following their disastrous performance in Ramadi.
A six second video recorded of an April 2008 terrorist attack in Ramadi explains why the city fell without a fight to ISIS last week.
