The US military is requesting authority to send up to 500 new troops to Iraq ahead of a much-anticipated campaign to take back Mosul from Islamic State, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “The new deployment would bring the overall U.S. presence to as high as 6,400,” it said, noting ...
Clashes erupted on Friday between the so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’ and the ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ (FSA) terrorist groups, Al-Manar sources reported. The stand-off took place at the outskirts of Snakes Mountain in eastern Qalamoun in Damascus countryside. Both parties inflicted casualties in personnel. It’s been repeatedly ...
