A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shia pilgrims, at a gas station in the city of Hilla 100 kilometres south of Baghdad on Thursday, police and medical sources said. "There must be co-operation between us to prevent ISIS from moving their equipment and their fighters," he added, referring to Islamic State. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)Thousands of civilians fled Tal Afar as Popular Mobilisation closed in on the town, which is mostly populated by ethnic Turkmen. Tal Afar also had a Shia community, which fled in 2014 when the Sunnis of Islamic State swept through the region. Abadi tried to allay fears of ethnic and sectarian killings in Tal Afar, saying any force sent to recapture it would reflect the city's diversity.

Source: CBC News November 24, 2016 17:22 UTC