The first thing Iraqi teenager Afrah did when she escaped Daesh captivity near Mosul was to remove her face veil and throw it defiantly to the ground.
The militants kidnapped and used Afrah, 16, her older sister Asil and 14 other family members and (...)
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked a Daesh-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the jihadists in its eastern neighborhoods.
As the (...)
