The latest news round-up of developments inside Iraq:
- Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) launch fresh attacks on Mahabad, a once short-lived Kurdish state. Clashes subsequently erupted between Kurdish guerillas and IRGC forces.
- New claims of ‘liberation’ have been touted by Iraqi forces battling Islamic State fighters in Fallujah, but fighting has transformed the city into the nation’s fastest emptying areas.