Islamic State arrests shopkeepers for hiking prices in nearly besieged Mosul
Islamic State has arrested dozens of Mosul shop owners accused of raising food prices in the nearly besieged city, to tamp down discontent as a...
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Iraqi forces say 1,000 Islamic State fighters killed in Mosul
Iraqi special forces battling to clear Islamic State from eastern Mosul have killed nearly 1,000 militants but fighting has slowed as troops face a mobile...
Iraqi troops battle for last town before Mosul
By Babak Dehghanpisheh Iraqi troops advancing towards Mosul battled on Saturday for the last town left between them and the Islamic State stronghold to the north, which is...
Iraqi forces advance on town where IS accused of executions
US-backed Iraqi forces moved closer on Wednesday to a town south of Mosul where aid groups and regional officials say Islamic State has executed dozens...
Iraqi troops battle Islamic State inside Mosul
Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul on Tuesday as the two-week campaign to recapture the jihadists’ last main bastion...
Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul
Advancing Iraq troops broke through Islamic State defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgents’ stronghold into...
Iraqi forces edge closer to Mosul on southern fronts
Iraqi troops and security forces advanced towards Mosul from the south and southeast of the city on Sunday, Iraqi officials said, backed by air and...
Shi’ite militias launch offensive to seal off western Mosul
Iraqi Shi’ite militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around Islamic...
IS using tens of thousands as human shields in Mosul – UN
Islamic State forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as ‘human shields’...
Iraq’s Shi’ite militias say offensive west of Mosul imminent
Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitary groups are about to launch an offensive on Islamic State positions west of Mosul, assisting in the military campaign to take...
Islamic State holds up Iraqi army south of Mosul
Islamic State fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern...
Iraqi army’s elite force pauses advance near Mosul
An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city’s eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other...
Islamic State steps up counter-attacks as Mosul offensive enters second week
Islamic State expanded its attacks on Monday against Iraqi army and Kurdish forces to relieve pressure on its militants confronting an offensive on Mosul, its...
Burning sulphur near Mosul sends hundreds to hospital, US troops don masks
Up to 1,000 people have been treated for breathing problems linked to fumes from a sulphur plant set ablaze during fighting with Islamic State in...
Iraqi army drives Islamic State from Christian region near Mosul
Iraqi army troops on Saturday stormed into a Christian region that has been under Islamic State control since 2014 as part of US-backed operations to...
Islamic State attacks Kirkuk as Iraqi forces push on Mosul (Update)
Islamic State launched a major counter-attack on the city of Kirkuk on Friday as Iraqi and Kurdish forces pursued operations to seize territory around Mosul in...
Mosul offensive going faster than planned, Iraqi PM says
The offensive to seize back Mosul from Islamic State is going faster than planned, Iraq’s prime minister said on Thursday, as Iraqi and Kurdish forces...
Evoking Ottoman past, Erdogan vows to tackle Turkey’s enemies abroad
Smarting over exclusion from an Iraqi-led offensive against Islamic State in Mosul and Kurdish militia gains in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan warned Turkey “will not wait...
Abandoned villages on road to Mosul rigged with tunnels and bombs
A deep tunnel, booby trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half...
Islamic State said to use Mosul residents as human shields as coalition closes in
Residents of Mosul said Islamic State was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on the...
