The militants were said to hold an area about 180m (590ft) long and 45m wide. The battle for Mosul has taken almost nine months, left large areas in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and ...

Atrocities in Mosul could spark a new sectarian uprising against the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad. So the battle for Mosul will be headed in part by the Iraqi army's 15th Division ...

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

There are thought to be 100,000 people still trapped in the last IS-held district of Mosul As the battle to retake the last districts of Mosul from IS control enters its final stages, the UN says ...

For Iraq’s future — and to end the threat ISIS poses to the West — the battle for Mosul will be of critical importance.

Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive on Mosul to dislodge ISIS fighters, more than a hundred villages have been liberated. But the battle for Mosul continues.

The US-led coalition appears confident that fighters of the so-called Islamic State (IS) will be defeated in Mosul. But the battle for Iraq's second largest city has already been going on for six ...

Battle for Mosul: 'Mad Max' suicide squads are blown to oblivion on the road to hell ...

The battle for Mosul reaches the suburban outskirts of the city. Our special correspondent Ahmad Ghafur, reports on the latest about the operation for retaking Mosul from IS, which is getting ...

As a crucial battle continues over the control of Mosul, Iraq - one of the last Islamic State (ISIS) strongholds in the country - militants are taking a play from the "scorched Earth" playbook.

In October of 2016 the battle for Mosul the Islamic States selfproclaimed capital in northern Iraq began With unprecedented access BernardHenri Lévy and his team follow the Kurdish units and the ...

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