ISIS will be evicted from the country in three months: Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi

Iraqi Prime Minister Haide al-Abadi said the Iraqi forces will need three months to eliminate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, as battles continued to free the IS stronghold in the city of Mosul and the rest of Iraq. “The Americans were very pessimistic,” al-Abadi stated on Tuesday.…

At least 50,000 ISIS fighters killed in Iraq, Syria in past two years: US official

At least 50,000 militants from so-called Islamic State have been killed since the US-led coalition started fighting in Iraq and Syria two years ago, a US military official said. The senior official described the figure as a “conservative estimate”. Speaking about ISIS, the official said, “I give them…