The Iraqi volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) warded off suicide attacks by the ISIL terrorists on their military positions at Tal Afar airport.
Commander of Iraq's Counterterrorism Forces Wahab al-Saedi disclosed that ISIL's so-called oil minister has been killed in Nineveh province on Monday.
The Iraqi volunteer forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) has announced that dozens of families have been rescued from the ISIL's detention in several villages near Tal Afar.
ISIS terrorists arrested 35 former intelligence officers of the Iraqi army to the West of the city of Hawija, and took them to the undisclosed direction.
Leaders of the brutal ISIS terror group have reportedly met in secret to discuss who will become their new headman fuelling rumours that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.
Iraqi special forces battled to flush out three dozen ISIS terrorists from another eastern Mosul district on Sunday (December 4) in a fierce struggle with retreating militants.
Local security sources disclosed that unidentified men killed a senior ISIS commander in a knife attack in the center of the city of Mosul.
The ISIS Aamaq news agency on Sunday released footage claiming to show militants fighting in Mosul.
Heavy fighting flared up in the eastern sector of Mosul on Sunday, with both sides exchanging heavy gunfire from rooftops in the Shaimaa neighborhood.
Iraq's joint military forces recaptured a number of more villages near the city of Mosul in Nineveh province on Sunday.