Iraq has issued a warrant for the arrest of the former governor of Nineveh on corruption charges after at least 90 people were killed in a ferry accident in the provincial capital Mosul, two court officials said on Wednesday.
The warrant also (...)
The demolition of a wrecked building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul where Daesh (the so-called IS) used to execute men they said were gay is already in its third month.
Homeless boys who hunt for scrap in the remains of the former National (...)
Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday congratulated his fighters on "the big victory in Mosul" — even as fighting with IS militants continued in Mosul's Old City neighborhood where Iraqi forces are about 250 meters from the Tigris River and facing (...)
The IS group is striking back as Iraqi forces are on the cusp of full victory in Mosul, sending women suicide bombers to target soldiers as the battle for the country's second-largest city nears its end. At least 15 people were killed in the latest (...)
With snipers lurking on rooftops and bombs hidden in the rubble, rescue workers are risking their lives in a desperate search for civilians buried during the battle for Iraq's Mosul.
Overwhelmed by a blazing sun and an unfathomable grief, (...)
The terrorist Daesh's "state of falsehood" has come to an end, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday, after Iraqi troops captured the wrecked historic mosque of Mosul in which IS terrorists declared their self-styled caliphate three (...)
The terrorist Daesh's "state of falsehood" has come to an end, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday, after Iraqi troops captured the wrecked historic mosque of Mosul in which IS terrorists declared their self-styled caliphate three (...)
Iraq's military pushed deeper into Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, taking two more districts from Daesh (so-called IS) and bringing it closer to total control of the city. The army's 16th infantry division captured Hadarat Al-Saada and Al-Ahmadiyya, (...)
Iraqi forces on Tuesday pushed towards the riverside of Mosul's Old City, their key target in the eight-month campaign to capture Daesh (so-called IS) group's de-facto capital, and Iraq's prime minister predicted victory very soon.
Iraqi forces, (...)
The battle to wrest full control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from Daesh (so-called IS) will be over in a few days, the Iraqi military said on Monday, as elite counter-terrorism units fought militants among the narrow alleyways of the historic Old (...)
People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without Daesh (so-called IS) in years on Sunday after the militants were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to recapture the remaining area would soon be (...)
Iraqi forces opened exit routes for hundreds of civilians to flee the Old City of Mosul on Saturday as they battled to retake the ancient quarter from Islamic State militants mounting a last stand in what was the de facto capital of their (...)
Daesh militants blew up on Wednesday the Grand Al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret, an Iraqi military statement said.
It was from this medieval mosque that the militants' leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared a self-styled (...)
The Daesh (the so-called IS) militants defended their remaining stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, moving stealthily along narrow back alleys and slipping from house to house through holes in walls as US-backed Iraqi forces slowly advanced.
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called IS) fighters herded a group of civilians into a house in the city of Mosul and locked them inside as Iraqi forces advanced. Moments later, the militants entered through a window, lay low for a few minutes, then fired their weapons. The plan (...)
The Iraqi man laid the body of his wife, wrapped in a black shroud, gently on the bow of a small wooden boat and held onto it as a second man rowed slowly to pick up the man's three children standing a few meters away.
The two teenage girls and (...)
Aliyah Hussein and the 25 family members sheltering with her in Mosul's western Mahatta neighborhood are surviving by picking wild greens growing in a park near their home. Hussein mixes the vegetables with small amounts of rice and tomato paste to (...)
Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when Daesh swept into Mosul and declared a so-called "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the militants, his parents took him out of school.
Three years later, he sells ice cream at a (...)
Iraqi forces are using siege and stealth tactics to drive IS militants out of Mosul's Old City, an Iraqi general said, as his forces sought to minimize casualties among hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the cramped, historic (...)
Heavy two-way traffic of carts carrying children, clothes, and the elderly crowded the main Baghdad-Mosul road on Sunday as hundreds of Iraqis fled heavy fighting or made their way back to areas seized back from Daesh.
Families paid no heed to the (...)
Pushing carts loaded with bags, babies and the elderly, hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after Iraqi forces retook another district in the west of the city from Daesh.
After walking for miles, families were taken by bus from a government (...)
Iraqi forces gained fresh ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said, as the US-backed offensive to capture Daesh's de facto capital in Iraq entered its seventh month.
A correspondent saw thick smoke (...)
On the western side of Mosul, much of the fighting against Daesh militants takes place between houses so close that they almost touch. Snipers fire from roofs and through holes blasted into outer walls.
Seen through these holes, this part of Iraq's (...)
Sitting in a wheelchair and wearing sunglasses, pensioner Abdelraziq Abdelkarim enjoys the afternoon sun outside his house in Mosul after a day of rain. He does not flinch when a mortar opens fire just around the corner.
His home is on the busiest (...)
The United Nations expressed profound concern on Saturday over reports of an incident in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul that caused a high number of civilian casualties.
"We are stunned by this terrible loss of life," Lise Grande, the (...)
