May 15, 2016 Meet the Middle East

US says bid to retake Iraq's Mosul from IS making progress

IS had "returned to suicide bombing" because the area under its control was shrinking and it was on the defensive, Brett McGurk said at a conference in the Jordanian capital.His remarks came as jihadist suicide assailants broke into a gas plant north of Baghdad and killed at least seven people, in an attack claimed by IS.
Source: Albawaba
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