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Iraqi govt forces claim to recapture Nimrud area

    Baghdad /AFP Iraqi forces said on Sunday they had recaptured the Nimrud area, the site of an ancient Assyrian city blown up by the IS group, as they battled the extremists south of Mosul. Iraqi troops pushed towards Nimrud last week as they pressed an offensive launched on October 17 to recapture Iraq’s second city, which the extremists ...

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Families ripped apart in Pakistan shrine attack

  Khuzdar District / AP Survivors of a massive bomb attack on a shrine in southwest Pakistan that killed dozens spoke of their horror Sunday after families were ripped apart in a strike showing the expanding reach of the IS group. The blast, later confirmed to be the work of a teenage suicide bomber, hit male and female worshippers as they ...

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