Mosul offensive

The Iraqi air force on April 19 carried out a “deadly raid” against positions of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in neighboring Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said.

A Baghdad court on April 2 sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a judicial source said.

An Iraqi court has sentenced a Turkish woman to death by hanging for joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Reuters reported, citing a statement taken out by the spokesman for the criminal court in Baghdad on Feb. 19. 

Iraqi authorities stated on Feb. 15 that Ismail Alwan Salman al-Ithawi, a top leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been extradited to Iraq from Turkey.

An Iraqi interior ministry official said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike.

Rebuilding Iraq after three years of war with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) will cost $88.2 billion, with housing a particularly urgent priority, Iraqi officials told an international conference yesterday.

Turkish police have detained 31 suspected Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) members in Istanbul who were preparing to launch an attack, state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Feb. 10.

Britain has foiled a suicide plot, hatched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), to kill Prime Minister Theresa May with a bomb in Downing Street, Sky news reported, citing unidentified sources.

A senior United Nations official says the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has left behind massive destruction in Iraq and enormous planning and investment are needed for rebuilding.

Turkish nationals make up half of the hundreds of families being held in a camp near Mosul for suspected links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press on Sept. 16.