Footage has been released purportedly showing the arrest by Kurdish forces of an ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh) terrorists in Bashiqa on Sunday.
8 killed and 6 injured in a suicide blast in south of Iraqi capital of Baghdad. 12
Iraqi forces say they have recaptured Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian city, which was considerably damaged by so-called Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS, Daesh).
Iraqi Special Forces said on Sunday they have cleared the Qadisiya and Zahra neighborhoods of Mosul and were planning to advance further.
Iraqi government forces have retaken another region in Mosul as army soldiers, backed by pro-government fighters from Popular Mobilization Units and Kurdish Peshmerga forces, are pushing forward to drive ISIS (Daesh / ISIL) terrorists out of the strategic northern city.
The ISIS (Daesh / ISIL) Takfiri terrorists have fired mortars containing chemical agents against civilian areas south of the Iraqi city of Mosul. The attack comes days after New York-based Human Rights Watch warned against the use of toxic chemicals by Daesh in areas near Mosul in an attempt to keep its last stronghold in the war-torn country as Iraqi forces press ahead with a large-scale operation to liberate the northern city.
Spokesman of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi (volunteer forces) Ahmad al-Assadi declared that a new stage of operations to retake the strategic city of Tal Afar in Nineveh province will start soon.
There were gasps, followed by tears at a small church in northern Iraq as a group of Christians returned to their parish Sunday to find that everything had been destroyed, including the statue of the Virgin Mary which Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS/ Daesh / ISIL / IS) militants had decapitated before they left.
Hundreds of Iraqis who recently returned to the town of Hammam al-Alil, southeast of Mosul, after its recapture from Islamic State (ISIS / Daesh / ISIL / IS) receive aid and food packages on Sunday.
A leading US-based rights group released a report on Sunday alleging that security forces of Iraq’s regional Kurdish government had routinely destroyed Arab homes in areas retaken from the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS / Daesh / ISIL) over the past two years.