Iraqi insurgency
Fierce Fighting On Outskirts of Mosul Old City
Iraqi forces backed by helicopter strikes engaged in heavy fighting with jihadists on the outskirts of the Old City on...
Mosul Families Go Against the Tide To Return Home
Tens of thousands have flowed out of war-wracked Mosul in recent weeks, but Samir Hamid and 33 family members have...
Iraq Forces Say Near Mosul Mosque Where IS Declared ‘caliphate’
Elite Iraqi forces said they were battling house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the...
Death Carts Carry Family Ripped Apart By Mosul Campaign
As a convoy of wooden carts descends a hill outside Iraq's war-torn second city of Mosul, a child's foot, greyed with...
Iraq Forces Near Mosul Mosque Where IS Declared ‘caliphate’
Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the mosque where the...
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...
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....
Adopting IS Tactic, Iraqi Forces Weaponise Small Drones
Inside an armoured vehicle in Mosul, a colonel scans live footage from a drone flying above the Iraqi city, hunting...
Iraq Forces Retake Mosul Train Station, Once A Major Rail Hub
Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the...
Iraq Forces Retake Mosul Train Station
Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, which has not been operational since jihadists...
After Fleeing Homes, Iraqis Near Mosul Wait For Tents
A sea of tents stretches to the horizon at a camp for displaced near Mosul but Ahmed Hassan says he and 17 relatives...
Iraq Holds Detainees In ‘horrendous Conditions’ Near Mosul
Iraq's interior ministry is holding over 1,200 men and boys suspected of ties to jihadists in "horrendous conditions"...
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...
IS Fighters Left In Mosul Will Die, Says US Envoy McGurk
Any so-called Islamic State (IS) fighters left in Mosul will die in the Iraqi city, a US envoy co-ordinating the...
Iraqi Forces Retake Third of West Mosul
Iraqi security forces have seized control of more than a third of west Mosul, a commander said Sunday, after a week of...
Iraq Forces Retake Over A Third of West Mosul, Commander Says
Iraqi forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Islamic State group, a commander said, as Baghdad's...
Iraqi Forces Retake Over A Third of West Mosul
Iraqi security forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Islamic State group since launching an...
Iraq Paramilitaries Say Mass Grave of Hundreds Found
Iraqi paramilitary forces announced Saturday that they had discovered a mass grave at Badush prison near Mosul...
Fear and Hunger In Iraq’s West Mosul
The luckiest of west Mosul's residents under Islamic State group rule had tomato concentrate. Potatoes were an almost...