IS Chief Reported Dead After Jihadists Lose Mosul
Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported dead on Tuesday, a day after Iraq declared it had driven ...
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Mosul’s Once-Thriving Old City Now A Grey Wasteland
Once the beating heart of Iraq's second-largest metropolis, the Old City of Mosul is now a broken wreck, its winding ...
Iraqi Forces Push To Clear Last Pockets of IS In Mosul
Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the premier ...
Iraqi Forces Fight To Clear Last Jihadists From Mosul
Iraqi forces engaged in "heavy" fighting with the Islamic State group on Monday as they battled to clear the last ...
Mosul Victory Marks Win For Pentagon Training Plan
The Iraqi military's hard-fought victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul marks a defining moment not just for them. ...
Mosul Victory Imminent, US Says, As Iraqi Forces Celebrate
Iraq will announce imminently a final victory in the nearly nine-month offensive to retake Mosul, a US general said Saturday, ...
IS Fighters Killed Trying To Flee West Mosul
A group of jihadists tried to escape across the Tigris River from west Mosul where they hold a dwindling pocket ...
Mosul Becomes ‘graveyard’ For Foreign Jihadists
The decaying bodies of foreign jihadists are piling up among the ruins of Mosul where the last few dozen Islamic ...
Iraq Forces Battle IS In Mosul After PM Fetes ‘victory’
Iraqi forces battled the last Islamic State group holdouts in Mosul on Wednesday, a day after the country's premier feted ...
US-Backed Forces Breach IS Defences In Heart of Syria’s Raqa
US-backed forces have penetrated the heavily fortified heart of jihadist bastion Raqa for the first time, in a key milestone ...
Gunfire Cuts Short Celebrations At Recaptured Mosul Mosque
Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where jihadist ...
Mosul Victory In ‘days’ As Pressure On IS Mounts
Iraq will declare victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul during the "next few days," a senior commander said ...
Iraq Sees End To ‘caliphate’ As Mosul Mosque Recaptured
Iraq declared the Islamic State group's "caliphate" was coming to an end after it recaptured Mosul's iconic Nuri mosque Thursday, ...
Iraq Military Says It Has Retaken Iconic Mosul Mosque
The Iraqi military announced on Thursday that special forces had recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where jihadist chief Abu Bakr ...
Iraq Forces Comb West Mosul After IS Counter-Attacks
Iraqi forces launched a house-to-house search operation Monday in parts of west Mosul after a surprise attack by Islamic State ...
Iraq Forces Combing West Mosul After Surprise IS Attack
Iraqi forces on Monday were searching neighbourhoods of west Mosul they retook weeks ago after a surprise jihadist attack on ...
The Stench of Death Rises Over Mosul’s Old City
Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of jihadists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where ...
Iraq Forces Push Deep Into Devastated Old Mosul
Iraqi forces battled deep into the devastated historical heart of Mosul and closed in fast on the last pockets of ...
Two Thirds of Mosul Old City Retaken From IS
Iraqi forces have retaken two thirds of old Mosul, a week after launching an offensive against the Islamic State group's ...
Bomber Sows Death Among Civilians Fleeing Mosul
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate jihadists are ...