Iraqi special forces are facing “fierce” resistance as they battle the ISIL Takfiri group in southwest Mosul, a commander said on Wednesday. Iraq launched a major push on February 19 to recapture the rest of Mosul from ISIL, retaking the airport and then pushing up from the south. Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said onWednesday that extremist circles from organizations banned by the UN Security Council should not be allowed to join the negotiation process on Syria. “We cannot allow for extremist circles from organizations banned by the [UN] Security Council to leak into this political process,” Lavrov ...
