Kurdish Peshmerga fighters backed by Turkish artillery on Sunday claimed major advances against Islamic State extremists outside Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, at one point claiming to have seized full control of the town of Bashiqa. Peshmerga commanders outside the town told reporters their fighters […]
Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on Sunday as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists’ last stronghold in Iraq. Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, told U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter that […]
Fierce clashes broke out this weekend in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, hours after a three-day cease fire ended with Russian and Syrian government warplanes launching waves of airstrikes and rebel militias targeting western districts held by Assad government troops with Grad rockets newly […]
One way to measure the growing turmoil in South Sudan is by the rapidly expanding refugee influx in neighboring Uganda. A crowd of refugees press into a food distribution area at Pagirinya Refugee Settlement, one of the newest camps built to accommodate the latest arrivals […]
The Dibaga camp, an hour’s drive south of Irbil, is home to nearly 30,000 people who have been displaced by Islamic State fighting in northern Iraq. Since the Mosul offensive started, hundreds of families from areas around the city have managed to flee. The UN […]
Kurdish forces have carried out new attacks on positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) in northern Iraq to retake the town of Bashiqa, near Mosul. Kurdish Peshmerga commanders said they made large advances into IS territory and secured part of a highway that will limit […]
The Mosul operation will come at a great humanitarian cost, given the large number of Iraqi civilians held hostage by Daesh terrorists. The jihadists are using the civilians and their children as human shields to discourage the US-led coalition’s airstrikes. While there are no doubts […]
During the planned operation to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from Daesh a corridor will be left for terrorists to escape to Syria, a Kurdish representative said. Daesh fighters in Mosul, Iraq in 2014. © AP Photo/ STR Daesh Rigs Mosul With Bombs Ahead […]
Two UK Royal Airforce (RAF) combat jets flew over the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetzov in a “show of presence” as it passed the English Channel, the Times reports. The vessel, accompanied by seven more ships, is heading to the Mediterranean. Read more Overreaction? Russia’s […]
Islamic State leaders accept they will lose control of the city of Mosul but are planning to defend their last major urban stronghold in Iraq tenaciously, U.S. and Kurdish officials say, in much the same way they fought last year at Ramadi, leaving that town […]
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