Iraqi forces advanced Wednesday towards central Tal Afar, one of the ISIL group’s last strongholds in the country, as aid workers braced for an exodus of civilians fleeing the fighting. Armoured personnel carriers full of soldiers and fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary coalition moved into Al-Nur district early in ...
The Iraqi army, federal police, and mobilization forces managed on Tuesday to advance in Tal Afar in the context of the ongoing operation to regain the northern county, inflicting heavy losses upon ISIL terrorists. The Iraqi forces liberated Al-Nour, Al-Askari and Al-Kifah neighborhoods as the engineering units dismantled the planted ...