Iraqi forces on Thursday battled terrorist holdouts in the last pockets of east Mosul still held by gunmen from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group, a top commander said. The head of Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, which has been doing most of the fighting ...
An Ankara court has ordered to arrest two people who were earlier detained over the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov. According to the Anadolu news agency, the arrested suspects are police officer Sercan Baser and entrepreneur Enes Asim Silin. On Wednesday, the Turkish police detained and questioned ...
