Iraqi Defense Ministry

Four people were killed and six others wounded in two separate attacks in Iraq, authorities said early on Feb. 24.

In a statement, police said unknown attackers killed a traffic officer as well as a civilian in eastern Baghdad province.

A civil servant working for the Education Ministry was killed in Sadr City in the capital Baghdad by armed assailants riding a motorbike.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul on April 6, and killed two pilots, as security forces announced they recaptured another neighborhood in their nearly six-month-old offensive against the jihadist stronghold.

Iraqi forces entered Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held Mosul on Nov. 3 for the first time in more than two years since the jihadists took control of the city and were battling ISIL militants on the front line, CNN International quoted Iraqi defense officials as saying.

Turkey said in a written statement on Dec. 8 that the number of its troops training volunteers near Mosul would be set following talks between the two countries' defense ministers, in a bid to defuse three days of tension between the two neighboring countries. 

Iraqi Defense Ministry has sent back two aircrafts carrying weapons to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq to Turkey and Kuwait after detaining them for a few days, the Do?an News Agency (DHA) reported.

Iraqi Defense Ministry has sent back two aircrafts carrying weapons to Iraq's Kurdistan region to Turkey and Kuwait after detaining them for a few days, the Do?an News Agency (DHA) reported.

Two cargo planes carrying Turkish military aid to Iraqi soldiers arrived in Baghdad on March 3, a Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News, stressing that the assistance includes non-lethal military equipment aid for 500 soldiers of the central government.