Mosul offensive
Iraq Forces Battle IS To Close In On Mosul’s West Bank
Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way towards southern Mosul on Monday and prepared to take on...
US-Led Coalition Expects To Stay In Iraq After Mosul
The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Monday he expected its forces would be...
Trump’s Defense Chief, In Iraq, Says
The U. S. military is not in Iraq "to seize anybody's oil", Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, distancing himself from...
Optimism On the Front Line Over Mosul Assault
In the arid hills, Iraqi forces drive their armed vehicles towards a village of around a dozen small stone houses....
Forces Battling IS In Iraq’s Mosul Theatre
A wide array of Iraqi and international forces are involved in the operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State...
Iraq PM Announces Launch of Operation On West Mosul
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced the launch of military operations to retake west Mosul from...
Iraq Forces Foil IS Attempt To Flee To Syria
Iraqi forces have thwarted an attempt by around 200 jihadist fighters to flee their bastion of Tal Afar towards Syria,...
UK Sees IS Being Ousted From Iraq Towns This Year
British Defence Minister Michael Fallon said Saturday in Iraq that he expected to see the Islamic State group expelled...
Iraqi Forces ‘retake Mosul University’ From ISIL
Iraqi special forces have taken full control of a strategic university in eastern Mosul, according to senior...
Car Bomb Hits Busy Square In Baghdad’s Sadr City
At least 33 people were killed and 48 wounded in a car bomb attack on a busy square in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City...
Baghdad Hit By Deadly Bombings, At Least 11 Dead
Separate bombings in and around Baghdad have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 34 others, according to Iraqi...
Islamic State Strikes Back To Slow Iraqi Forces In Mosul
Islamic State fighters retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold have hit...
Nearly 2,000 Iraqi Troops, 900 Civilians Killed In November
Nearly 2,000 Iraqi troops were killed across Iraq in November as they battled to force ISIS extremists from the...
Australian IS Recruiter Neil Prakash ‘still Alive’
An Australian militant thought dead is still alive and under arrest in the Middle East, according to reports. The...
Iraq Militias ‘cut Off IS Access To City’
An Iraqi paramilitary force says it has seized a key road west of Mosul, effectively encircling the city controlled by...
Paranoid ISIS Leader Reportedly Refuses To Sleep Without Suicide Vest
As U. S.-backed Iraqi forces close in on the Islamic State's hub of Mosul, the leader of the terror network has become...
Hundreds of Bodies Discovered In Mass Graves Near City
Iraqi security forces have discovered two mass graves near the city of Mosul containing around 250 bodies, police said...
Islamic State Kills Civilians In Mosul To Deter Support For Army
Islamic State has summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul it accused of collaborating with U. S.-backed security forces,...
‘Iraqi Forces’ Tortured and Killed Villagers
Men dressed in Iraqi federal police uniforms are reported to have tortured and killed residents of villages south of...