Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi meanwhile insisted that claims that Turkish troops had taken part in the battle for Bashiqa were "baseless and untrue". Turkey's Prime Minister Binali ...

Small Steps Towards Change Watching the World Tracking Turkey's Mysterious Murders Photo: Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters near Bashiqa. Credit: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images.

IRAQI Kurdish peshmerga fighters made their most determined bid yet to breach Islamic State (Isis) defences at Bashiqa yesterday in the ongoing battle to encircle and liberate Mosul. They exchanged ...