October 18th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT Mosul operation progresses as 12 surrounding villages liberated from Daesh President Masoud Barzani of Iraqi Kurdistan said that Iraq's forces and Kurdish Peshmerga troops have cleared some 200 square kilometres of land that were under the control of Islamic State in the first day of the campaign to capture Mosul. Read more
October 17th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT Iraq: Kurdish Peshmerga forces liberate seven villages as Mosul operation begins
