Nineveh police

Suicide attackers from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group killed at least 12 Iraqi forces Jan. 3 in a brazen attack on police training at a military base, officials said.

A commando of fighters equipped with rifles and suicide vests snuck into Speicher base, near the city of Tikrit, in the middle of the night.

Iraq's parliament on Aug. 17 referred to the judiciary a report calling for the trial of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials in connection with the fall of Mosul to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) last year, two lawmakers said.

An Iraqi parliamentary panel called yesterday for dozens of security and political officials, including former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to be referred to court in connection with the fall of the northern city of Mosul to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).