Egypt condemns terrorist attack in Mosul
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has condemned a terrorist attack at a restaurant in the Iraqi city of Mosul which…
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Iraq deploys forces near Kurdish oil export pipeline: sources
Iraqi forces are deploying tanks and artillery south of a Kurdish-held area of northern Iraq where a section of a…
Iraqi forces say they have broken through Islamic State lines in Tal Afar
Iraqi government forces broke through Islamic State’s lines inside Tal Afar on Friday, reaching the old city…
Iraq begins battle to retake Tal Afar, IS bastion near Mosul
Iraqi forces on Sunday launched an assault to retake the northern city of Tal Afar from the Islamic State group,…
Gunmen kill seven relatives of Iraqi policeman
Gunmen killed seven family members of an Iraqi police officer, including a teenage son, in a pre-dawn attack…
Syria army takes last IS-held town in Homs: Monitor
Syria's army seized the last Islamic State group stronghold in the country's Homs province on Saturday, clearing…
After Mosul, Islamic State digs in for guerrilla warfare
Islamic State militants began reinventing themselves months before U.S.-backed Iraqi forces ended their three-year…
ISIS tightens grip on village near Mosul after defeat
Islamic State has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city,…
Iraqi PM formally announces victory over ISIS in Mosul
Iraq's prime minister declared Monday victory over Islamic State in Mosul, three years after the militants seized…
Iraqi Prime Minister congratulates armed forces for Mosul ‘victory’
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their…
Iraqi army says Mosul victory imminent,ISIS vows ‘fight until death’
Islamic State militants vowed to "fight to the death" in Mosul on Saturday as Iraqi military commanders said they…
Iraq forces battle ISIS in Mosul after PM fetes ‘victory’
Iraqi forces battled the last Islamic State (ISIS) militant group holdouts in Mosul on Wednesday, a day after the…
Iraqi forces close in on IS redoubt in Mosul after declaring end of caliphate
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces attacked Islamic State's remaining redoubt in Mosul's Old City on Friday, a day after…
Iraq announces Isis’s caliphate ‘has fallen’ after huge symbolic victory…
Iraqi troops have captured the ruins of Mosul’s grand mosque from Isis, the military said in an announcement,…
Iraqi soldiers on foot fight last pocket of Islamic State in Mosul’s Old City
Peering through a lookout hole at the Mosul frontline on Tuesday, Iraqi soldiers attacked the last remaining patch…
ISIS blows up historic Iraq’s Mosul mosque where it declared ‘caliphate’
Islamic State militants on Wednesday blew up the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret,…
US-backed Syrian force starts battle to capture Raqqa from ISIS
The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday it had begun a battle to capture Raqqa, Islamic…
Iraqi forces seize four districts in Mosul’s ISIS-held enclave
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Friday captured one of the four districts making up the Islamic State-held enclave in…
Iraqi forces launch operation to seize last ISIS enclave in Mosul
Iraqi armed forces launched an operation on Saturday to capture the last Islamic State-held enclave in Mosul,…
ISIS mining Mosul to stop families fleeing as Iraqi forces advance
Islamic State (IS) militants are planting bombs near front doors in Mosul to prevent civilians leaving, a federal…
Iraqi forces gain foothold in northwest Mosul after surprise new push
Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly…
Iraq forces restore town of Hatra southwest of Mosul: source
Iraqi forces on Thursday retook the town of Hatra, southwest of Mosul, on the third day of an operation that saw…
Iraqi forces using siege and stealth to evict IS from Mosul
Iraqi forces are using siege and stealth tactics to drive Islamic State militants out of Mosul's Old City, an Iraqi…
Hundreds join Mosul exodus as Iraqi forces retake two more western districts
Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi…
Iraqi forces fight door-to-door in Mosul as battles enters seventh month
Iraqi forces gained fresh ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said on…
Iraqi forces pause Mosul push over concern for civilian casualties
Iraqi government forces paused in their push to recapture western Mosul from Islamic State (IS) militants on…
Trump’s administration hosting first meeting of anti-ISIS coalition
Foreign ministers from 68 countries meet in Washington on Wednesday to agree on the next steps to defeat Islamic…
Iraqi forces fight to take Mosul, car bomb in Baghdad kills 23 people
Islamic State (IS) militants captured an Iraqi police colonel and eight other officers on Monday after they ran out…
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…
Iraq’s forces restore Mosul train station
Iraqi forces said Tuesday they recaptured Mosul train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the…
Iraqi forces retake over a third of west Mosul: commander
Iraqi security forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS) group since…
ISIS frees Iraq’s Mosul prisoners as grip on last major city slips
Islamic State (ISIS) has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of…
ISIS leader Baghdadi abandons Iraq’s Mosul fight to field commanders: sources
U.S. and Iraqi officials believe the leader of Islamic State (ISIS) group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left…
Iraq forces hunt for bombs, IS holdouts in Mosul
Iraqi forces worked to clear bombs and flush out any remaining Islamist militants in retaken areas of west Mosul…
Iraqi forces retake government HQ, museum in Mosul
Iraqi forces said Tuesday they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made…
Iraqi Mosul train tunnel reveals assault course for elite ISIS militants
The mouth of the tunnel is hardly visible on a muddy hillside overlooking Mosul, where fighting now rages between…
Iraqi forces battle IS in heavy west Mosul fighting
Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State (IS) group in hours of heavy clashes in west Mosul on Sunday, as the number…
US general says Iraqi forces on time in Mosul fight
Iraqi security forces are progressing as planned in their battle to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS)…
Chemical weapons injure 7 in Iraq’s Mosul: Red Cross
Seven people, among them five children, have been hospitalised over the past two days near Iraq's Mosul with…
Iraqi forces block ISIS counter-attack in western Mosul – officers
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces advancing in the Islamic State group's stronghold in western Mosul fought off a…