The Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat mentioned on Monday that a number of Sunni political leaders in Iraq want to meet with the Prime Minister Haidar Abadi to tackle the choice of establishing an independent Sunnite region, adding that such step was aimed to be kept confidential. The paper added that ...
Iraqi forces started on Monday a new push to capture new towns in ISIL’s bastion of Hawija, the operations commander said. Government forces and the Hashed al-Shaabi are fighting to retake the northern town of Hawija after expelling ISIL from large parts of the territory they seized in Iraq in ...