The remains of almost 600 victims of ISIS's deadliest atrocity have been exhumed, Daily Mail reported.
The Iraqi volunteer forces destroyed a strategic base of the Takfiri terrorists in a special operation in Nineveh province, Al-Alam TV reports.
The latest Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s attack against peshmerga on Friday in northern Iraqi towns of Makhmour and Gwer in Nineveh province was led by the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ANADOLU Agency reports.
When Islamic State fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a coalition of Sunni tribal fighters inside the town and Shi'ites in its sister city Balad on the opposite bank, Reuters reports.
Baghdad, as a model city in the Arab world in 1970s, after decades of seemingly endless conflict, is now the world's worst city, a consulting group says.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says more than 40,000 Syrians fled their country to seek refuge in Iraq's Kurdistan region in recent days amid escalating violence by foreign-backed militants.