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Iraqi Forces Advance In Mosul Old City, Rescue Civilians
Iraqi forces said Tuesday they were fighting fierce battles with the Islamic State group and rescuing escaping...
Iraq Paramilitaries Make Fresh Progress West of Mosul
Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from the...
Iraq On Cusp of Mosul Victory Three Years After Major Defeat
Three years after the Islamic State group routed them in Mosul, Iraqi forces are now on the cusp of retaking the city...
Iraq Forces Announce Gains In West Mosul
Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighbourhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad...
On Mosul Front, Iraqi Forces Come As Civilians Go
The black Humvee slaloming between car bomb carcasses and mortar craters stops to let fleeing civilians cross and then...
Iraq Forces Advance In West Mosul
Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, tightening the noose...
In Iraq’s Mosul, Mobile Clinics Deliver Precious Medical Care
Men, women and children stand in separate lines in the scorching sun baking west Mosul's Baghdad Square for a turn in...
IS Terrorises Mosul Civilians As Iraq Forces Advance
Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul Tuesday, closing in on the Old City where jihadists executed civilians in a...
Iraq Forces Retake Large Mosul Neighbourhood From IS
Iraqi forces retook full control of one the largest neighbourhoods of west Mosul Tuesday from the Islamic State group...
Iraq Forces Free 11-Year-Old Yazidi Girl In Mosul
Iraqi forces in Mosul have freed an 11-year-old Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a slave by the Islamic State...
Iraq Forces Retake More Areas In West Mosul
Iraqi forces retook two more neighbourhoods in west Mosul Thursday, tightening the noose around jihadists holed up in...
Iraq Forces Make Mosul Gains, But Anti-IS War Far From Over
Iraqi forces made major gains in the six months since launching the operation to retake Mosul, but the battle for...
Rush Hour On Mosul’s ‘displacement Highway’
On west Mosul's Baghdad street, thousands of displaced Iraqis flee the fighting with their meagre belongings but...
Iraq Forces Launch Renewed Attack On Mosul’s Old City
Iraqi forces renewed their assault Monday against jihadists in Mosul's Old City, after days in which the battle was...
In Iraq’s Mosul, A School Becomes A Field Hospital
Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school...
Escaping IS-Held Mosul, Residents Head Into Unknown
Bilal Abduljabbar clambers onto the back of an Iraqi army truck with his two teenage children to start the final stage...
Iraq Forces Gain Ground, Deploy Snipers In Mosul
Iraqi forces gained ground from the Islamic State group in Mosul and have deployed snipers in the Old City to target...
Iraq Forces Seize Ground In Mosul Old City
Iraqi forces said Friday they had seized ground inside Mosul's Old City, a district expected to see some of the...
Iraq Forces Advance After Jihadists ‘trapped’ In Mosul
Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken more territory from the Islamic State group as they press an offensive that has...