Iraqi military says it has found mass grave south of Islamic State-held Mosul... READ MORE›
We are gravely worried by reports that ISIL is using civilians in and around Mosul as human shields as the Iraqi forces advance ..... READ MORE›
Turkey has troops at the base in Bashiqa, north of Mosul, where they have been helping to train Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga and Sunni fighters... READ MORE›
Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdish region, told U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter that the Kurds had succeeded in liberating Bashiqa from Islamic State... READ MORE›
Peshmerga forces 5 miles from Mosul in battle against ISIS... READ MORE›
ISIL, also known as ISIS, fighters stormed Rutba following territorial losses in Mosul, the group's last major urban bastion in Iraq... READ MORE›
Bashiqa is believed to be largely deserted except for dozens of ISIL fighters... READ MORE›
The longer the battle to retake Mosul goes on, the more difficult it will become for the Iraqi forces... READ MORE›
At least 1,000 people were evacuated by Iraqi counterterrorism forces from their villages, Dekker added... READ MORE›
Turkey says troops using artillery near Mosul but Iraq rejects participation claim in ongoing Peshmerga-led operation... READ MORE›
Iraq's military and the country's Kurdish forces are on the move to the south and east of the Islamic State group-held city of Mosul... READ MORE›
The Mosul offensive involves tens of thousands of soldiers, federal police, Kurdish fighters, Sunni tribesmen and Shia militias... READ MORE›
ISIL fighters have been steadily retreating from areas around Mosul into the city since the start of the offensive... READ MORE›
Tens of thousands of troops are involved, while there are thought to be nearly 6,000 ISIL fighters in and around Mosul... READ MORE›
The fall of Mosul would mark Islamic State's effective defeat in Iraq... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaybi called on British energy giant BP on Wednesday to help develop fields in the northern province... READ MORE›
The hostages would be killed, the Islamic State had warned, it the pesh merga attacked... READ MORE›
For two days ISIL forced Iraqi security forces to declare a state of emergency in the northern city of Kirkuk... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces have freed dozens of villages in their advance on Mosul, yet more than 1 million civilians are still trapped in the ISIS-held city... READ MORE›
Their goal is to cut off any option of retreat by Islamic State insurgents into neighboring Syria or any reinforcement for their defense of Mosul... READ MORE›
Islamic State fighters have sought to slow the offensive on their Mosul stronghold with waves of suicide car bomb attacks... READ MORE›
This is a very important factor, thanks to which Daesh Islamic State has not been able to move its fighters... READ MORE›
In Bashiqa town, a well-armed Isis unit has dug in, and there are concerns that these fighters could escape to launch another battle or suicide attacks... READ MORE›
Mosul residents confirm that enslaved Yazidis are still inside the city, where conditions for civilians are rapidly deteriorating... READ MORE›
Nearly 300 former members of the security forces and 30 sheikhs, or local leaders, had reportedly disappeared from other villages around Mosul, a senior United Nations official said... READ MORE›
Spokesman Rupert Colville said Iraqi forces found the bodies of 70 civilians who had been shot dead in the Tuloul Nasser village, some 35 kilometers south of Mosul... READ MORE›
The Kurdish forces, or peshmerga, who are also taking part in the offensive, announced a large-scale operation to the north and north-east of Mosul on Thursday... READ MORE›
The Islamic States control of Mosul and the nearby area separated families for long stretches... READ MORE›
Oct. 18, 2016 Smoke rises as people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and members of the Islamic State terrorist group fleeing Mosul, Iraq... READ MORE›
Peshmerga officers said the New Zealand SAS are also present... READ MORE›
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