Source: ET “They had trimmed their beards and changed their clothes,” the former businessman said. “They must be scared… they are also probably preparing to escape the city.”Residents and military officials said many Islamic State fighters had relocated from eastern Mosul to their traditional bastions on the western bank of […]
Published time: 22 Oct, 2016 Get short URL http://on.rt.com/7soi The Russian Ministry of Defense says that the US-led coalition is responsible for striking mourners in the Iraqi city of Daquq on Friday, killing dozens of civilians, including women and children. The coalition jets apparently identified the mourning procession as […]
By AFP – Oct 24,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Iraqi families, who were displaced by the ongoing operation by Iraqi forces against Daesh militants to retake the city of Mosul, are seen gathering in an area near Qayyarah on Monday (AFP photo) QARAQOSH, Iraq — Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul faced […]
Source: The Guardian Iraq’s parliament has passed a law forbidding the import, production or selling of alcoholic beverages in a surprise move that angered many in the country’s Christian community […]
From the Facebook Page of Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer: Dear friends, I am writing this text full of anger and shame. Almost every day it’s raining bombs on Mosul. 15.000 civilians were already killed in the region by air raids of the U.S. coalition. The world remains silent. The United […]
Reuters International OCT 24, 2016 – BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi lawmaker has called on her government to investigate a suspected air strike at a Shi’ite mosque during fighting in nearby Kirkuk last week, saying U.S.-led forces could have been involved – a suggestion dismissed by the coalition. Human […]
Oct 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh According to various security reports, the last few weeks have seen systematic mass withdrawal of Daesh fighters from Mosul, in anticipation of the battle to free this city from the terrorist group’s grip. The US insists on separating political and military […]
There is support, but a lot of the time it’s delayed,’ says one general Loveday Morris, Thomas Gibbons-Neff Kanhash @lovedayM Saturday 22 October 2016 families wait to receive food supplies at a processing centre for displaced people In Qayyara, south of Mosul REUTERS Iraqi and Kurdish forces, who have relied […]
By Rudaw Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (right) meeting with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter in Baghdad on Saturday. Photo from AP video. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq has declined Turkey’s offer of assistance in the offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS rule. “I know that the Turks want […]
Posted on October 23, 2016 by Editorial Staff KHAZER, Iraq,— Iraqi and Kurdish forces have launched a new offensive on a town near Mosul as part of a massive operation aimed at retaking the country’s second largest city from the Islamic State group. The Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, said […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 A displaced woman, who fled from Daesh terrorists in Mosul, holding her baby at Deepaka camp in the northwest of Irbil, during an operation against Daesh in Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2016. Daesh rose to prominence because of a series of mistakes committed in the name of political […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of people in Iraq are being treated for the effects of toxic gases after a sulphur plant was set alight in fighting with so-called Islamic State. The […]
İBRAHIM KALIN@ikalin1 PublishedOctober 17, 2016 Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma The key stakeholders including global powers, regional players and non-state actors must stop using Daesh for their small strategic gains because this is becoming a war in which there are no winners. Two wrongs do not make a right […]
HANI HAZAIMEH | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 Smoke rises as Kurdish forces gather near a site of a Daesh attack in Kirkuk, Iraq. (REUTERS) JEDDAH: An airstrike killed 15 women on Friday at a shrine near the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, local officials and medics […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 This file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP) Just like misinformation led to a Saudi-led coalition plane targeting a funeral hall — and ultimately killing Yemeni civilians — earlier this month; yesterday’s airstrike on a Shiite shrine near the […]
Reuters International OCT 21, 2016 Iraqi army gather after the liberation of a village from Islamic State militants, south of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudan (reuters_tickers) By Michael Georgy QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – Islamic State launched a […]
Friday 21st October, 2016 Militants armed with assault rifles and explosives have attacked targets in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in an assault claimed by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group. The October 21 attack comes as the Iraqi government and Kurdish forces are making a major […]
Source: Asia Times Islamic State fighters are putting up stiff resistance as Iraqi forces launched a third front in the offensive to take back Mosul. The group has unleashed suicide bombers and left a trail of booby traps, according to Al Jazeera and other media reports. Iraq said that on […]
Oct 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The battle for Mosul that has been unleashed this week will focus much attention in the immediate future on a set of conditions that are particular to northern Iraq. Yet, there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the evolution of […]
Oct 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson got the war in Aleppo and Mosul right: he depicted two black-clad grim reapers, operating in shifts, covering the cityscapes with blood. This war is finally to be fought with exactly the same ferocity on two fronts, with the […]