The Iraqi air force attacks on strongholds of the Islamic State group resumed in the west of the city of Mosul Tuesday. The attacks were recent days stopped because of cloud cover. Ground forces are preparing to march on the Great al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, where IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi nearly three years ago in parts of Iraq and Syria proclaimed a caliphate.
Italy has sacked the head of his visa office in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil. Research has shown that the man for thousands of euros sold visas, sometimes to people who were rejected by others because they were considered a safety hazard.
At an office of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq late on Tuesday bombed. The explosion left six dead, report sources close to the Iraqi-Kurdish security forces.
Terror movement Islamic State Tuesday at various locations in northern Iraq, the attack on Kurdish fighters. They managed to break through the lines of the peshmerga and take in a town a short time, said the Kurdish authorities in the area.
A leader of Islamic State Monday just south of the Iraqi city of Mosul slain by US commandos and Kurdish terrorism forces.
Authorities in the Kurdish north of Iraq have arrested a US citizen who came from the area of the group Islamic State. The Security Council of the Kurdish regional government finds out what the man was doing there, CNN reported Monday.
US commandos have captured a commander of the extremist movement Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. It is the first time that the new unit, which is responsible for disabling the task IS leaders, has come into action.
Iraq decided Monday and Tuesday not to carry out civilian flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Arbil and Sulaimaniya. The airspace is used by Russia to carry out bombings in neighboring Syria, reported the Iraqi aviation authority.
