When an elderly man bursts into tears after realising that ISIL’s reign of terror has come to an end in his neighbourhood, one soldier walks up to embrace him, while another offers him a cigarette.
Eventually the stench of death was too much even for ISIS. They covered it, mined it. The Iraqi government won’t touch it. […]
With fighting still ongoing on the other side of the river, some semblance of normality is slowly returning to eastern Mosul.
The kidnapping of a successful Iraqi party organizer suggests the government is powerless against militias.
Yazidis join Shiite militias as they flush out ISIL militants from the village of Kocho in southern Sinjar.
