ISIS Forces Routed in Some Cities in North Iraq

AsiaNews: For the first time in months, Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish peshmerga and Shiite militias have launched a counter-offensive against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Thanks to the support of US air raids two days ago they broke the siege of the Shiite Turkmen city Amerli (see photo) and “in just a few hours” succeeded in retaking Suleiman Bek, 175 km north of the capital which had fallen into IS hands in June. Shiite and Kurdish forces have also surrounded the village of Yankaja, where heavy exchanges of artillery fire are taking place right now. Read more here.