BAGHDAD – Iraqi counter-terrorism units detained twenty female Islamic State members from a tunnel discovered under a Mosul Old City neighbourhood, days after the recapture of the city. A secret tunnel was discovered underneath the Quleiat neighbourhood in the Old City, an Iraqi counter-terrorism official told dpa on Saturday. "The women had weapons and explosive belts meant for attacking Iraqi troops" counter-terrorism official Haidar al-Araji said. Participating in Saturday's parade were Iraqi army troops, counter-terrorism forces, the federal police and the government-allied Shiite militia, the Popular Mobilization. Mosul fell under the control of the Islamic State jihadist group in mid-2014, in a blitz that saw Islamic State forces overrun large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

Source: The China Post July 15, 2017 23:37 UTC