Iraqi army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have made further advances into Mosul as they seek to drive out ISIS terrorists from their last urban stronghold in the violence-wracked Arab country.
Iraq's joint military forces repelled an attack by the ISIS terrorist group on a strategic airport in the Western part of Nineveh province, killing and injuring tens of terrorists.
The Iraqi army has liberated seven villages in Anbar Province close to the border with Syria from Daesh (ISIS / ISIL) control.
Daesh terrorist group stopped payment of monthly wages to its fighters in Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul, amid Iraqi government forces continued its offensive, according to local media.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed the importance of strengthening cooperation and coordination with neighboring Iraq in the fight against foreign-sponsored terrorism and extremist groups.
The ISIL terrorists have been facing a serious shortage of income in recent months and have started selling the looted properties of Iraqi people in Deir Ezzur's market, local sources said.
The head of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) says Iraqi forces have managed to wrest control of up to 70 percent of eastern Mosul in their push to purge the whole city from ISIS terrorists.
ISIL ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has chosen three successors for himself, among them an Iraqi national, to lead the terrorist group after him, local sources in Nineveh said.
Turkish Defense Minister said the United States and the US-led coalition member states could lose the use of Turkey's Incirlik Air Base.
Iraqi army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have started an offensive to retake towns and areas in the troubled western province of Anbar from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.