US-trained Iraqi troops committed war crimes in the fighting around the city of Mosul. In the final stage of the battle against Islamic State (IS), Iraqi soldiers have executed dozens of men, according to Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch Thursday.
Animal wardors have freed several unmarried animals, including lions and tigers, from a zoo near the Syrian city of Aleppo. The animals are extensively depleted and dehydrated and have met the war in the city at night.
Two Iraqis who were affected by air attacks during their flight from the city of Mosul in 2015 want to know whether Dutch F-16s have been involved. In a letter sent by a letter sent by NRC Handelsblad on Thursday, their lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld asks clarification to Minister Jeanine Hennis of Defense.
The 16-year-old German scholar Linda W., who traveled to IS area last year, was recently arrested in Mosul. The girl would be part of a group of twenty female warriors from the Islamic State terrorist group. That is what the German newspaper Die Welt reports.
Iraqi armed forces celebrated the liberation of Mosul, the last Islamic state militia in the country, Saturday with a military parade in Baghdad. Soldiers, tanks and other heavy vehicles pulled in the eyes of, among others, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi through the streets of the capital. In addition to army units, the police and shiite militias also contributed to the weapon scene.
Now that more parts of Iraq are liberated from the terrorist wind of IS, the European Union is also going to provide humanitarian aid in those areas. For example, medical emergency treatment for citizens in the front line is extradited by 30 million euros. Money is also being spent in areas where displaced persons can return.
Iraqi troops resounded on Wednesday in Mosul with warriors of the Islamic State terrorist group. Soldiers and jihadists shattered each other in the Old City, saying two inhabitants. 'We're still living here in an atmosphere of fear,' said a 45-year-old man.
With the possible death of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the big question is: who is following him? Largest contenders are two former officers from Saddam Hussein's army. Not strange because the backbone of Islamic State is formed from the beginning by soldiers of the former dictator, which was sold by America in 2003.
Islamic State has confirmed the death of their leader al-Baghdadi. That late IS know in an official statement. More details about his death are not released.
Islamic state may have been expelled from Mosul, the terrorist movement has stepped up the Iraqi village of Imam Gharbi, 70 kilometers south of Mosul. The militants infiltrated the village last week, when IS saw the Iraqi army in Mosul, but the city was not reinvested. Most of the warriors who escaped from Mosul sought refuge in the siege village.
The international coalition against Islamic State responded monday to the revival of Mosul. 'Although still parts of the Old City need to be stripped of explosives and potentially hidden IS fighters, the Iraqi security forces Mosul now have firm hands,' concluded the coalition in a statement.
Iran congratulated the 'brave' Iraqi people and the government in Baghdad on Sunday with the liberation of the city of Mosul. Sunday the last warriors of Islamic state were expelled from the city.
The city of Mosul, released on Sunday by the Iraqi army, is one of the largest cities in Iraq after the capital city of Baghdad. It is the capital of the oily province of Nineveh and is located approximately 400 kilometers northwest of Baghdad.
Iraq claims the complete liberation of Mosul.
The Iraqi army expects to take in the last 'meters' of the Old City of Mosul. That is what the Iraqi state television reports on the authority of her correspondent embedded with the troops in Mosul. 'It's a matter of hours. Then victory is declared 'let the channel know.
Islamic State has carried out a surprise attack on a village south of Mosul. IS warriors infiltrated the village of Imam Gharbi Wednesday evening from an area still in the hands of the terrorist organization, sources said in the security services Friday. There is nothing known about the death toll.
Iran is sure that the leader of Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi no longer lives. A representative of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a special military unit said Thursday to Iran's Iranian State Press Office that Al-Baghdadi is 'definitely dead'.
The enclosure of the official capital of Islamic State, Raqqa, has been completed. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which announced Thursday that the last escape route from the Syrian city has been cut off.
The Iraqi army says Thursday had occupied the destroyed historic mosque in Mosul where Islamic State called out the caliphate three years ago.
Iraqi troops have themselves conquered the al-Faruq district in Mosul conquered by warriors of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
Iraqi armed forces opened flight routes on Saturday, allowing hundreds of civilians to escape from Mosul's Old City. Warriors of the Islamic State terrorist organization defend the remains of the official capital of the caliphate that IS called three years ago.
A French journalist, Véronique Robert, has died of the effects of injuries she had incurred in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday. She died in a hospital near Paris four days after her colleague Stéphan Villeneuve, according to French media.
More than five million children in Iraq urgently need help. In Mosul, IS warriors would attack targeted children. Thus, Islamic State wants to punish their families and force to stay in the Iraqi city, according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.
Islamic State has blown up the Al-Nuri Mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, as the Iraqi army told. The mosque was of great symbolic importance for the terrorist organization. In this religious building, IS leader al-Baghdadi called the caliphate three years ago.
Russia has not been able to confirm that the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed last month by an air strike in Syria. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov said this to the press agency Interfax on Tuesday.
French journalist Stephan Villeneuve died in an American military hospital after being injured earlier this week by an exploding landmine in Mosul. French media reported this Tuesday.
The Iraqi army started Sunday's storm of the historic city of Mosul. That has announced army officers.
Hundreds of people have incurred food poisoning in a refugee camp east of the Iraqi city of Mosul. A woman and child did not survive. 'It's tragic that this happened to people who have been through so much,' said a UNHCR UN spokeswoman.
Islamic State has called for an audio message during the Ramadan attacks in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, Syria, Iran and the Philippines. The clip was distributed monday via the IS channel on Telegram, an online messaging service with encryption. It is reportedly Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, the spokesman for the terrorist organization.
Iraqi armed forces sacked an Islamic state offensive on the Sunni city of Shirqat, south of Mosul on Saturday. According to security officers, thirty soldiers and civilians were killed by the fighting, forty people were injured. Also, ten IS warriors were killed.
