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The Islamic State (IS) group has lost over half of its land in Iraq as the government forces claimed on Monday the retaking of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s western province of Anbar. The territory controlled by the terrorist group has reduced to 20 percent of the whole country, down from 40 percent in 2014, according to local media reports. The IS has controlled large areas in middle and northern part of Iraq since June, […]
The French military released on Sunday (September 27) footage showing its first air strikes in Syria, which it says destroyed an Islamic State training camp in the east of the country to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against the France’s interests and to protect Syrian civilians. France had until now only struck Islamic State targets in neighbouring Iraq, carrying out just 3 percent of air strikes in an offensive on the group by […]
AUGUST 30 (CCTV) — Turkish fighter jets on Friday night joined the U.S.-led coalition air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militant group targets in Syria for the first time, according to a written statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Saturday. The joint air strikes were conducted as part of a technical agreement between Turkey and the United States signed last week after months of talks. Turkey was previously reluctant to take part in […]
(Reuters) — The head of one of Iraq’s fiercest Shi’ite militias called the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ineffective on Tuesday (July 28). Qais al-Khazali, leader of Iranian-backed paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, also accused Washington of lacking the will to uproot the radical Sunni Jihadis controlling large swathes of Iraq and Syria. The 41-year-old Iraqi said the campaign against Islamic State had failed because of an American agenda to redraw the map of the […]
