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...
