Iraqi PM declares end of war against IS in Iraq... READ MORE›
The Iraqi prime minister visited Ankara on Wednesday and discussed its reopening with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... READ MORE›
Updated October 26, 2017 1 25 pm Iraqi soldiers pose with the Islamic State flag along a street of the town of al-Shura, south of Mosul, Iraq... READ MORE›
Iraqi federal police and counter-terrorism forces, along with Hashd al-Shaabi fighters, have deployed in... READ MORE›
Iraqi armed forces also took control of Kurdish-held areas of Nineveh province north of Kirkuk, including the Mosul hydro-electric dam, after the peshmerga pulled back... READ MORE›
Baghdad has retaken five oil fields from Kurdish forces in Kirkuk, leaving the Kurds in control of only one in the province... 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 areas were evacuated by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters before the arrival of the Iraqi forces on Tuesday, the statement said... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces also said on Tuesday they seized the Yazidi Kurdish town of Sinjar from the Peshmerga... READ MORE›
Iraqi archaeologist Faleh Noman, who undertook British Museum training and has been appointed by the Iraqi government to lead assessment of the sites, found barbaric destruction... READ MORE›
OPINION Regional implications of the Kurdish independence vote Earlier on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blasted the referendum as adventurism that puts Turkey at risk... READ MORE›
KRG head defiant as Turkey calls planned independence referendum in Kurdish northern Iraq a threat to its security... READ MORE›
A military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State IS has begun, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says... READ MORE›
Last week, Islamic State militants videotaped themselves destroying statues and artifacts in the Mosul Museum and at the Nergal Gate entryway to ancient Nineveh... READ MORE›
For a thousand years, Mosul has been at the heart of battles that shaped the Middle East... READ MORE›
Please read our Isis militants intensified their efforts to destroy invaluable historical landmarks in Iraq after bulldozing the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud near Mosul... READ MORE›
In Iraq, it is fighting US-backed Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias... READ MORE›
Secret resistance groups and individuals found ways to fight Islamic State militants in their Iraqi towns. And many paid with their lives... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces say major islamic state attack blocked outside old city of mosul... READ MORE›
Mr. Denton, a Times photographer, and Mr. Gordon, a Times military correspondent, are with Kurdish forces near Sheikh Amir, Iraq, on the eastern approach to Mosul... READ MORE›
A huge coalition of Iraqi troops, Kurdish Peshmerga allies and Iraqi irregulars press forward with their assault to recapture Mosul from ISIS... READ MORE›
Abed al Hagani al Asadi of the Iraqi special forces... READ MORE›
Al Jazeera There is an ongoing dispute between Baghdad and Ankara over Mosul... READ MORE›
Peshmerga forces 5 miles from Mosul in battle against ISIS... READ MORE›
Mosul Iraqi troops find Assyrian treasures in network of Isis tunnels... READ MORE›
A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013... READ MORE›
But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE›
Civilians, carrying a white flag and a few belongings, seek to escape fighting between Islamic State militants and Iraqi security forces in the city of Mosul... READ MORE›
He said Isis was shooting anyone seen trying to flee Mosul, but there were growing signs of potential resistance to Isis from inside the city... READ MORE›
The report, Children of Islamic State, has been endorsed by the UN and will be published on Wednesday in parliament... READ MORE›
Turkey says troops using artillery near Mosul but Iraq rejects participation claim in ongoing Peshmerga-led operation... READ MORE›
Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid, reporting from Erbil in northern Iraq, said several different groups were involved in a complex assault on ISIL positions... READ MORE›
In Iraq and Syria, between Saturday and Monday, the United States conducted about 45 strikes against Islamic State targets... READ MORE›
The loss of Nineveh province is crucial because this is where ISIL declared its caliphate, Bin Javaid said... READ MORE›
Mosul airport 1 80 Tigris River 2 miles Nineveh Ruins 1 Mosul Amusement Park 2 Mosul The center of government is on the western side of the river... READ MORE›
On Saturday, residents of Mosul and Nineveh Province offered new details about the destruction of Nimrud by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces have now all but surrounded the western part of Mosul, while the US-led coalition has been carrying out air strikes on IS targets... READ MORE›
Islamic State fighters stormed police stations and buildings in Kirkuk on Friday, killing about 100 security force members and civilians... READ MORE›
Fleeing residents said there had been heavy mortar fire launched by retreating Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition have since October been battling to oust the group from Mosul... READ MORE›
Iraqi government troops and Kurdish fighters launched their push towards the city in the early hours of Monday... READ MORE›
The Church of Mart Shmoni, damaged by Islamic State fighters, in Bartella, Iraq... READ MORE›
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