Upcoming military offensives in Iraq against Islamic State, including an assault on the northern city of Mosul, could displace at least 2.3 million people, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq said on Thursday. The [ More … ]
Iran is ready to build military bases near the Suadi borders with supervision of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Lebanese Shiite cleric Mohamad Ali El-Husseini said. The secretary general of the the Arabic Islamic council [ More … ]
More than 300 Sunni civilians from the Iraqi city of Falluja have been executed by Shiite militias, according to local activist sources, and hundreds of others were tortured. Oubaida al-Dulaimi, a media activist from Saqlawiya – a [ More … ]
An Iranian-backed Shiite Iraqi militia said on Saturday it planned to storm Falluja, Islamic State’s stronghold near Baghdad, once civilians left the city, backtracking on earlier statements that it would leave this task to the [ More … ]
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