Iraqi Civil War 2014present)

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Baghdad Probing Rights Abuses By Iraqi Forces

Baghdad is investigating allegations of torture and rights abuses meted out by Iraqi security forces to Islamic State...

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India Begins Search For Missing Citizens After Mosul Victory

India on Monday announced it will send a top minister to Iraq in an effort locate dozens of its missing citizens after...

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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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Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul

Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last...

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UK Warns More To Do To Combat IS After Mosul Victory

Britain's Defence Minister Michael Fallon praised Iraq on Sunday for defeating the Islamic State group in Mosul but...

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The Islamic State Group In Iraq, Syria

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory Sunday in the "liberated" city of Mosul, the Islamic State...

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Iraq PM Declares Victory In ‘liberated’ Mosul

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in the "liberated" city of Mosul on Sunday, his office said,...

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Mosul Victory Imminent, US Says, As Iraqi Forces Celebrate

Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul, a US general said...

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Mosul Victory Announcement ‘imminent’

Iraqi authorities will imminently announce a final victory in the battle to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State...

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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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Up To 20,000 Civilians Trapped In IS-Held Areas of Mosul

Up to 20,000 civilians are trapped in the last Islamic State group-held areas in Mosul's Old City, which Iraqi forces...

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Iraq PM Fetes ‘victory’ In Mosul, But Battle Continues

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated the Iraqi people and security forces on winning a "major victory" over...

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Iraq Forces Retake Hospital Near Mosul’s Old City

Iraqi forces have recaptured a hospital and other medical facilities in west Mosul, further isolating Islamic State...

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Iraq PM Thanks Top Shiite Cleric For Role In Anti-IS War

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Friday thanked Iraq's top Shiite cleric for his role in the war against jihadists,...

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Mosul Victory In ‘days’ As Pressure On IS Mounts

Iraq will declare victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul during the "next few days," a senior commander said...

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Mosul Victory Announcement In ‘next Few Days’

Iraq will declare victory in the eight-month battle to retake second city Mosul from jihadists in the "next few days,"...

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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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Iraq Suicide Blast ‘kills 9’ In Anbar Province

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a town in western Iraq on Friday, killing at least eight civilians and a soldier,...