Kurds freed 68 ISIL hostages awaiting execution: ‘We have come to liberate you with the Americans’
Special to WorldTribune.com Kurdish and U.S. commandos on Oct. 22 freed 68 hostages in Iraq who were on the verge of being executed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The hostages were freed after a fierce firefight which resulted in the first American casualty in ground combat in Iraq since 2011. Saad Khalaf […]