ISIL group is forcibly gathering people in and around Mosul for possible use as human shields against advancing Iraqi forces, residents said Wednesday, confirming UN fears. ISIL overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces have since regained significant ground, and Mosul is the last ...
About 300 newly-recruited gunmen of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group were found among the dead in Mosul liberated areas, Rudaw news agency reported citing Ismat Rajab, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party branch in Mosul. The operation to retake Mosul from ISIL ...
