by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2018 The Iran-linked Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have been formally granted inclusion into Iraq’s security forces, a report said. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on March 8 that grants the PMU many of the same rights as members of the Iraqi military, Middle East Eye reported. During […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 30, 2017 Three years to the day that Islamic State (ISIS) announced its “caliphate,” Iraq declared that the “fake” caliphate was coming to an end. Iraqi forces on June 29 took control of Mosul’s al-Nuri mosque and Al-Hadba (minaret), Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement quoted by AFP. Iraqi […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2017 After recent gains in Mosul’s north, Iraqi government forces are squeezing Islamic State (ISIS) into an ever smaller area and hope to liberate the city “within days,” reports said. Iraqi Lt. Gen. Othman al-Ghanimi told the BBC he hoped ISIS would be defeated in Mosul before the Islamic holy […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2017 Despite the “unimaginable” brutality the Yazidi Christian community is enduring at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS), not one of the terror group’s jihadists has been prosecuted for war crimes, human rights groups say. In the past couple of years, ISIS has executed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 16, 2017 Christians in the town of Tel Esqof celebrated Easter on April 16 for the first time since Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the terror group’s “caliphate” from a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. “God willing, the celebration of the resurrection of Christ […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 21, 2016 The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is reportedly digging a moat around the perimeter of Mosul to impede advancing Iraqi government forces. “Recent activities suggest ISIL will dig in, presaging a long and bloody fight that could displace large numbers of civilians,” a report by the UK’s […]
