Iraqi forces on the move during a battle with Islamic State's militants outside Mosul on Feb. 24, 2017. The Islamic State has lost more than half of the territory it once controlled in Iraq, but headway against the group has been slower in Syria. Suspected Islamic State car bombs killed at least 50 people in the village of Sousyan, about six miles northwest of al-Bab, on Friday, witnesses and the opposition-activist-run Aleppo Media Center said. He said that “tens” of Islamic State militants surrendered Friday and that Iraqi forces have retaken the Ghizlani military camp on the city’s outskirts and stormed the Mamon neighborhood. The Islamic State used car bombs, snipers and weaponized drones to slow the advance.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2017 17:48 UTC