Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi orders military offensive to recapture city that has been under Islamic State control
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The militants seized control of the city, the hometown of Libya's former dictatorMuammar Gadhafi, in 2015.
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Eyewitnesses to the triple suicide bombing at Istanbul’s Atuturk Airport have shared horrifying details with RT concerning the ordeal that left 41 people dead and nearly 239 wounded. The Turkish government has linked the attacks to Islamic State.
If successful it could cut the militants' main access route to the outside world, paving the way for an assault on their Syrian capital Raqqa.
At least eight people have been killed in suicide bomb attacks on a suburb of Damascus which is home to Syria's holiest Shia shrine, state media say.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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