In Mosul, the missing are everywhere, their families hunting through the ruined Iraqi city for traces of lost husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters. Squatting on the edge of a crater under the burning sun of an Iraqi summer, Khaled Fizaali watches as a digger of the Civil Defence service pulls up … Read more
Adel, 15, hasn’t seen his parents for the past nine months, but that was the price to pay to escape the brutal rule of Islamic State group jihadists in his northern Iraqi hometown. “I miss my family, nine months is too long,” said the teenager, among hundreds of youngsters separated from their parents because of … Read more
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, Abdulrahman Mohammed and his brother Ammar smoke cigarettes in front of a digger as the workers … Read more
Relatives of a Palestinian family burned alive filed a lawsuit against Israel on Monday demanding it be held responsible and pay damages over the 2015 attack blamed on Jewish extremists in the occupied West Bank. Eighteen-month-old Ali Dawabsha died along with his parents when their house was firebombed in July 2015. His brother Ahmed, now … Read more
In Sidi Mhamed, a drab satellite town southwest of Algiers, residents are struggling to make ends meet, stay safe and secure a better future for their children. Few have any hope that Thursday’s legislative election will improve their lives. The sense of disillusionment with the political process is palpable. A few party billboards and some … Read more
For two weeks, Yunis Mohammed and 17 relatives huddled terrified in the cellar of his west Mosul home as the Islamic State group fighters fought off advancing Iraqi forces outside. “The jihadists would knock on the door but we wouldn’t open,” the 39-year-old mechanic says, finally sitting under a tree in the sunlight after Iraqi … Read more
There was still morning mist in the air when Iraq’s Rapid Response units began their push to take Mosul airport from the Islamic State group on Thursday. On a hilltop outside the village of Al-Buseif, the soldiers watched as helicopters fired rockets towards the airport and the adjacent sugar factory, held by the jihadist group … Read more
CNN crew caught in middle of all-out assault in Mosul For more than 28 hours, CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon and photojournalist Brice Laine were with Iraqi special forces during their push into ISIS-held Mosul. It was a new phase of the liberation operation — switching from villages and open terrain to a dense … Read more
The NPP in the Walewale constituency in the Northern region is accusing the Overlord of Buipe Traditional Area, Abdulai Jinapor II of blatantly flouting the chieftaincy institution by openly campaigning for President Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to them, the ruler did not only openly endorse the NDC presidential candidate but went … Read more
The Pentagon has today confirmed that the leader of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Godane, Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a US air strike earlier this week. The United States previously said that the strike inside Somalia had targeted Godane, but did not know whether he had been killed. “We have … Read more