Iraqi military investigators said Friday they have discovered two mass graves near a former ISIS group prison outside Mosul that contain the bodies of 500 ISIS victims.
The Media Cell Security Investigation team said in a statement that one grave near the Badoush Prison site contained the bodies of 470 prisoners killed by ISIS. It said a second grave containedRead more
In the arid hills, Iraqi forces drive their armed vehicles towards a village of around a dozen small stone houses. There is a sudden explosion. "Got it!" shouts an officer.
Just a few hundred metres (yards) from the front line of an offensive launched on Sunday at dawn to oust the Islamic State group from western Mosul, Iraqi forces casuallyRead more
A suicide bomber injured four policemen, one critically, outside a mosque in southern Pakistan as the country marked the beginning of the religious festival Eid Al-Adha on Tuesday.
The attack took place in Shikarpur in Sindh province, around 470 km north of Karachi and the same district where at least 61 were killed in a suicide attack on another mosqueRead more
Once Daesh is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shiite Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds, a top Kurdish official said on Thursday.
Iraqi troops have expelled Daesh from some key cities the militants seized in 2014, and are advancing on Mosul, the largest city under Daesh control.Read more