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FOR IRAQ'S CHRISTIANS, A BITTERSWEET FIRST CHRISTMAS HOME AFTER ISIS TAKEOVER
Hundreds return to celebrate their first Christmas together again in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, which was targeted by Islamic State militants... READ MORE›
FOR IRAQ'S CHRISTIANS, A BITTERSWEET FIRST CHRISTMAS HOME AFTER ISLAMI
A burned church of the Immaculate Conception by Islamic State militants is seen in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq December 23, 2017... READ MORE›
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FOR LIBERATED IRAQI CHRISTIANS STILL A BLEAK CHRISTMAS
By the time the Islamic State swept through northern Iraq in 2014, that figure had fallen to roughly 400,000... READ MORE›
RETAKING MOSUL WILL TAKE 2 MONTHS, GENERAL SAYS
A huge coalition of Iraqi troops, Kurdish Peshmerga allies and Iraqi irregulars press forward with their assault to recapture Mosul from ISIS... READ MORE›
IN CHARRED CHURCH NEAR MOSUL, IRAQI CHRISTIANS PRAY ONCE MORE
Today Qaraqosh is free of Daesh Islamic State, Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Butrus Moshe told worshippers... READ MORE›
HOW IS IT GETTING HOLD OF WEAPONS FROM THE WEST?
Weapons meant for Western-backed rebels in Syria are ending up in the hands of so-called Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq... READ MORE›
RACE IN IRAQ AND SYRIA TO SHIELD ART FROM ISLAMIC STATE
He had worked in Qaraqosh, an Assyrian Christian town in northern Iraq, but fled when the Islamic State took over... READ MORE›
IRAQI CHRISTIAN GIRL FREED FROM ISLAMIC STATE SAYS 'MUM, DAD' AGAIN
The militants took away Christina from the minibus which had driven them to the edge of Islamic State territory, after threatening Aida, who desperately resisted... READ MORE›
IRAQI CHRISTIANS RETURN TO RANSACKED TOWN WITH FEAR AND HOPE
They lost everything when Islamic State, known by its enemies as Daesh, wrecked their business... READ MORE›
US DEFENCE CHIEF ASH CARTER MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO IRAQ
Iraqi forces began a new attempt to recapture the town of Qaraqosh near Mosul on Saturday... READ MORE›
BOOBY-TRAPS PLAGUE NORTH IRAQ AS ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS RETURNING CIVILIANS
Islamic State militants are also expected to plant new areas as they fall back to the Syrian border... READ MORE›
US SAYS IS USING HUMAN SHIELDS
The US has accused Islamic State IS militants of using civilians as human shields as Iraqi forces move closer to the group's stronghold in Mosul... READ MORE›
TRAPPED IN A HOUSE WITH ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS
KIRKUK, Iraq -- She sent just one text to her mother I am trapped in a house with Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
IRAQIS FEAR BLOODSHED WILL CONTINUE AFTER MOSUL IF SECTARIAN TENSIONS ARENT ADDRESSED
In particular, there is the problem of how to handle the many Islamic State collaborators assumed to be among the million-plus people left in Mosul... READ MORE›
TURKEY INSISTS ITS FORCES 'CANNOT REMAIN IDLE'
Turkey has insisted that its forces cannot remain idle during the fight to drive so-called Islamic State militants from the Iraqi city of Mosul... READ MORE›
HUNDREDS TREATED OVER TOXIC FUMES FROM SULPHUR PLANT SET ALIGHT BY ISIS
Iraqi army forces and allied militias have been battling to retake the city, Isis's last Iraqi stronghold, since Monday... READ MORE›
TRAPPED IN A HOUSE WITH ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS
Kirkuk, Iraq She sent just one text to her mother I am trapped in a house with Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
IRAQIS ARRIVING AT CAMP BRING TALES OF PERIL
The Dibaga camp, an hour's drive south of Irbil, is home to nearly 30,000 people who have been displaced by Islamic State fighting in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
IS LEADERS 'ABANDON' MOSUL AS IRAQ FORCES CLOSE IN
Mosul was where IS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate two years ago but is now the group's last major stronghold in Iraq... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES DRIVE ISIL OUT OF CHRISTIAN REGION NEAR MOSUL
While the Iraqi army is trying to advance from the south and east on ISIL positions, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters attacked settlements east of Mosul on Saturday... READ MORE›
DISPLACED CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE AS IRAQ'S MILITARY FORCES ENTER TOWN NEAR MOSUL
Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq... READ MORE›
CHRISTIANS WHO FLED ISIL FEARFUL TO RETURN HOME
This year, the Peshmerga and the Iraqi army began operations to retake the area surrounding Mosul from ISIL, including some Christian-majority parts of Nineveh... READ MORE›
IRAQ'S DISPLACED CHRISTIANS ENCOURAGED BY DRIVE TO OUST ISIL FROM MOSUL
Neat rows of trailers in the Ankawa neighbourhood on the outskirts of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdish region shelter some 5,000 people... READ MORE›
IS ATTACKS KIRKUK IN MOSUL DIVERSION
But they have been launching countless suicide bombers against advancing Iraqi forces to make the anti-IS drive as slow and painful as possible... READ MORE›
IRAQI CHRISTIANS HOPEFUL AS DAESH MILITANTS PUSHED OUT OF TOWN NEAR MOSUL
Iraqi special forces pushed into Bartella, 15 kilometres from Mosul's outskirts, on Thursday, after fending off a wave of suicide truck attacks... READ MORE›
US DEFENCE SECRETARY MAKES LIGHTNING VISIT TO BAGHDAD
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declined an offer from Turkey to take part in the battle to dislodge ISIL from Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQI CHRISTIANS PRAY ONCE MORE IN CHARRED CHURCH NEAR MOSUL
Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh from the Islamic State group days earlier, as part of a massive offensive to wrest back the country's second city Mosul... READ MORE›
IRAQI FORCES DRIVES ISLAMIC STATE FROM CHRISTIAN REGION NEAR MOSUL
A U.S. military official estimated there were fewer than a couple of hundred Islamic State fighters in Qaraqosh... READ MORE›
CASUALTIES HEAVY AS KURDS NEAR STOP LINE OUTSIDE MOSUL, ISLAMIC STATE MOUNTS FIERCE RESISTANCE
Iraqi Kurdish forces pushed toward Mosul on Sunday, cordoning off eight villages and coming within 9 km 5 1 2 miles of the northern city held by the Islamic... READ MORE›
WAVE OF STRIKES AS IS PUTS UP TOUGH DEFENCE AGAINST IRAQI FORCES IN MOSUL
IS has also tried to draw attention away from losses around Mosul by attacking Iraqi forces elsewhere, the latest coming on Sunday near the Jordanian border... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDS CLAIM CAPTURE OF TOWN IN ADVANCE ON MOSUL
The peshmerga announced they had secured eight villages near Bashiqa, an IS-held town northeast of Mosul and one of the main Kurdish targets in the offensive... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE'S DEADLY BOOBY-TRAPS, DEFENSES MAKE FOR SLOW-GOING IN MOSUL OFFENSIVE
Karamlech is strategic because seizing the village would open up the road to Mosul, he explained... READ MORE›