A Dagestan-based militant leader who swore allegiance to ISIL terrorist group was picked as “emir” by ISIL chief al-Baghdadi and was linked to terrorist acts in Russia’s Volgograd, has been eliminated, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said. “Rustan Magomedovich Aselderov (Abu Muhammad), born in 1981, the leader of the Vilayat ...
Forces from the Iraqi army retook four villages from the ISIL group northeast of the city of Mosul on Saturday, the Joint Operations Command said. The recapture by the army’s 16th division of the villages between Bashiqa and Mosul clears the way for Iraqi forces to enter the city from ...