Violence against Shia Muslims

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Iraq Presses Mosul Assault, Calls On Civilians To Flee

Iraqi forces pressed forward on Monday with a broad offensive targeting Islamic State group-held areas in west Mosul...

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Iraqi Troops Push For Last ISIL Holdouts In Mosul

Iraqi forces have launched a broad assault on parts of Mosul, closing in on the remaining pockets of territory held by...

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Iraq Forces Launch Broad Attack On IS Holdouts In Mosul

Iraqi forces have launched a broad assault on parts of battleground second city Mosul still held by the Islamic State...

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UN Braces For Up To 200,000 Iraqis To Flee Mosul

As many as 200,000 Iraqis may try in the coming days to flee areas of Mosul under the control of the Islamic State...

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US Probe Finds Over 100 Civilians Killed In Mosul Air Strike

Pentagon officials on Thursday said at least 105 civilians died in a strike targeting Islamic State fighters in the...

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US Probe Finds More Than 100 Civilians Killed In Mosul Air Strike

A US strike targeting Islamic State fighters in a Mosul building in Iraq in March killed at least 105 civilians when...

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US Probe Finds More Than 100 Civilians Killed In Mosul Air Strike

A US strike targeting Islamic State fighters in a Mosul building in Iraq in March killed at least 105 civilians when...

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UN Says Struggling To Cope With Mosul Exodus

The exodus of civilians from the battleground city of Mosul has reached an unprecedented level, leaving aid agencies...

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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...

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Rescued ‘human Shields’ Tell of Mosul Horror

Fear and hunger are driving an ever-growing number of Iraqi civilians into a camp in Hammam al-Alil, where they share...

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As Summer Heat Looms, Post-IS Mosul Faces Water Crisis

In the battle against jihadists in northern Iraq, the village of Sayramun was recaptured in February but remains as...

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Jihadists Snaring Starving Civilians In Mosul Death Trap

Jihadists preparing for a desperate last stand in Mosul are booby-trapping homes with civilians inside and welding...

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Iraq Forces Launch New Push On IS In West Mosul

Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north on Thursday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old...

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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...

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US Service Member Killed In Blast Near Iraqi City of Mosul

A US service member has died from wounds sustained in the blast Saturday of an explosive device outside the Iraqi city...

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IS ‘executes’ At Least 15 Civilians In Mosul

Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who...

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Frontline Clinic Window On Hell of IS-Held Mosul Areas

The horrific wounds and gruesome accounts of the victims filling a frontline clinic in west Mosul in Iraq offer a...

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Tunisia Beach Massacre Case Set For April 28

The first public hearing into the June 2015 attack in the Tunisian resort of Sousse that killed 38 foreign tourists has...

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Satellite Dishes Reconnect Post-IS Mosul To World

Satellite dishes have been sprouting on the rooftops of east Mosul since it was retaken from the Islamic State group,...