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German Jihadi Girl Arrested In Iraq

A German 16-year-old girl suspected of joining the Islamic State jihadists in Iraq was arrested last week in Mosul, a...

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Videos Appear To Show Killing, Beatings By Iraq Forces

Videos allegedly shot in the Mosul area appear to show Iraqi security personnel executing a detainee and brutally...

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Iraqi Troops Clearing Last IS Militants

Iraqi security forces are clearing the final pockets of resistance by Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul....

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Mosul Victory Marks Win For Pentagon Training Plan

The Iraqi military's hard-fought victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul marks a defining moment not just for...

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IS Fighters Killed Trying To Flee West Mosul

A group of jihadists tried to escape across the Tigris River from west Mosul where they hold a dwindling pocket of...

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Iraqi Rescuers In Perilous Search For Mosul Missing

With snipers lurking on rooftops and bombs hidden in the rubble, rescue workers are risking their lives in a desperate...

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Iraq Forces Repel IS Counter-Attack

Fighters of so-called Islamic State (IS) have launched counter-attacks as they come under growing pressure from Iraqi...

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The Stench of Death Rises Over Mosul’s Old City

Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of jihadists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of...

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Bomber Sows Death Among Civilians Fleeing Mosul

A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate...

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Deep In Mosul, US Forces Support Iraq’s Fight

In a once-plush house in west Mosul, a handful of US soldiers watch on as an Iraqi commander barks orders over the...

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On Mosul’s Front Line, Iraqi Refuses To Quit Beloved Home

Standing at the gate of his house in Iraq's war-torn city of Mosul, Muwaffaq al-Obeidi watches as waves of displaced...

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Many Dead In IS Attack On Displaced People’s Camp

More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria's...

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IS Attack In Western Iraq Kills 10 Soldiers

Jihadist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on Tuesday in their latest deadly...

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Iraqi Forces Treated For Chemical Exposure

Several Iraqi troops required medical treatment following a chemical weapons attack by the Islamic State group over the...

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In Mosul, Iraqi Snipers Track Jihadists Around the Clock

A few hundred metres from an iconic mosque in west Mosul, Iraqi sniper Salah al-Zuheiri has his eye glued to his scope...

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Syria Fighters ‘take Control’ of IS-Held Airbase Near Raqqa

A US-backed force of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters say they have taken full control of a key airbase held by the...

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Syria Rebels ‘take Control’ of IS-Held Airbase Near Raqqa

US-backed Syrian rebels say they have taken full control of a key airbase held by the Islamic State group near its...

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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...

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Iraqi Soldiers Using SHUTTLECOCK Grenades To Target ISIS

The Iraqi army is giving ISIS a taste of its own medicine by bombing them with shuttlecock grenades attached to drones....