Several attacks against security personnel took place across Iraq.

An airstrike campaign is chasing civilians out of Tal Afar ahead of a ground assault.

Hundreds of bodies were found in a mass grave tied to the Camp Speicher massacre.

Two US Servicemembers were killed in northern Iraq .

A group of Caliphate Cubs was killed in an explosion.

There are reports coming out of Tal Afar that the ISIS/Daesh militants are fighting among themselves.

A spokesman for the militias said the groups will not participate in the liberation of Tal Afar.

Although authorities are recovering the bodies of civilians trapped under rubble, they are refusing to remove militant dead from the city’s streets.

The US denied launching an attack on a Shi’ite militia that ISIS/Daesh had already claimed responsibility for.

An army division is being redeployed to Tal Afar for an expected operation against the Islamic State.