Tag: Levant

The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Monday he expected its forces would be allowed ...

As Iraqi forces fight to take back Mosul from the Islamic State group, archaeologists trained by the British Museum are ...

An estimated 2,000 IS fighters are left in west Mosul to defend their bastion against a massive offensive by the ...

The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by ...

U. S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground offensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in ...

Security forces in Iraq's western region of Anbar began digging a trench around the provincial capital Ramadi Sunday to protect ...

The United Nations said Sunday as Iraqi forces launched their offensive to retake west Mosul that it was rushing to ...

Iraqi forces on Sunday advanced on the west bank of Mosul from the south, retaking five villages and marking a ...

Around 350,000 children are trapped in western Mosul, Save the Children warned on Sunday as Iraqi forces launched a fresh ...

Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group on October ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday announced the launch of military operations to retake west Mosul from the Islamic ...

At least nine people were killed on Saturday when government forces launched a barrage of rockets that hit a funeral ...

As many as seven suicide bombers, six of them women, have blown themselves up while trying to attack the northeast ...

Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group's destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra will soon be heading ...

The Iraqi forces that retook east Mosul from jihadists last month have moved on to their next battle, leaving a ...

As the noose tightens around holdout jihadists in west Mosul, so does the belt around the waists of hundreds of ...

Living conditions in west Mosul, where jihadists are hunkering down among 750,000 Iraqi civilians, are deteriorating fast and a source ...

Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect ...

Valentine's Day returned Tuesday to the eastern sector of the Iraqi city of Mosul from where the Islamic State group ...

Twice a month, beautician Chnoor Khezri takes her equipment to a camp near Mosul and gives displaced Iraqi women who ...