ISIS is regaining ground they had previously lost months ago – PB/TK
ISIS Nears U.S. Military Base in Iraq, Slaughters Journalists
By Tom O’Connor / July 7 2017
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has staged a new offensive against Iraqi forces south of Mosul, slaughtering soldiers and civilians as it nears a U.S. military installation.
Facing sweeping losses in its former stronghold of Mosul, militants loyal to ISIS have attempted to regain territory by entering the village of Imam Gharbi, about 43 miles south of the embattled city. ISIS first stormed the village earlier this week and has reportedly since made gains toward the nearby Qayara air base, forcing U.N. humanitarian staffers to flee the U.S.-controlled site.
Amid the jihadist advances, local Iraqi media outlet Hona Salaheddin reported that two of its journalists had been killed, along with a number of Iraqi troops attempting to repel ISIS from the area
“Colleague Harb Hazaa al-Dulaimi, correspondent for the Hona Salaheddin channel, and Sudad al-Duri, the cameraman for the same station, were martyred,” the channel said, adding that another of its reporters, Mustafa Wahadi, was trapped with his colleagues’ dead bodies and making pleas for his rescue via social media, according to Agence France-Presse.
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