As Iraqi troops battled to gain ground a few streets away, soldiers in the Mosul district of Intisar wrapped a wounded and bloodied colleague in a blanket, lifted him off his Humvee, and sped him away from the frontlines for treatment. Heavy shooting and mortar fire shook the neighbourhood, which the soldiers were trying to recapture from Islamic State militants who have held Mosul for more than two years. Fighting […]

LONDON: An eighth propaganda video released by the Islamic State (IS) shows British hostage John Cantlie giving the viewers a tour of the Iraqi city of Mosul in order to prove that “life in Mosul is business as usual.” The documentary-style clip in English countered media claims that suggested that the city was “depressed” and “living in fear” and termed such reports “misleading,” reported The Guardian. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest […]