Tal Afar and the surrounding area are among the last pockets of ISIL-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in Mosul, the country's second-largest city... READ MORE›
ISIS rounded up and killed 284 men and boys as Iraqi-led coalition forces closed in on Mosul, an Iraqi intelligence source told CNN... 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›
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters took control of Kirkuk in 2014, after the Iraqi army withdrew from the region, fleeing an Islamic State advance through northern and western Iraq... READ MORE›
Killings meant to terrorise as fighters accused of surrounding themselves with civilians in Hamam al-Alil village... READ MORE›
Advances towards Mosul have been slower from the south with government troops still 35km away, yet some progress has been made, Iraqi forces say... READ MORE›
The fall of Mosul would mark Islamic State's effective defeat in Iraq... READ MORE›
The population of Tal Afar was a mix of Sunni and Shi'ite ethnic Turkmen until Shi'ites fled the town after Islamic State's takeover two years ago... READ MORE›
Fighting rages as nearly 1,000 treated for breathing problems following sulphur plant fire south of key Iraqi city... READ MORE›
Reuters Alaa Al-Marjani Photo Iraqi security forces are pictured during a battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq February 26, 2017... READ MORE›
But Amnesty International says that in previous campaigns, the Shi'ite militias have committed serious human rights violations, including war crimes against civilians fleeing Islamic State-held territory... READ MORE›
Iraqi military inflicts 'heavy losses' on isis in mosul... READ MORE›
Battle for mosul how isis is fighting to keep its iraqi stronghold... READ MORE›
But security forces faced ferocious resistance from several hundred militants hunkered down among thousands of civilians in the maze of alleyways in Mosul's Old City... READ MORE›
Some will join the Shia-dominated units in battle as they push the retreating ranks of Isis into Syria... READ MORE›
Iraqi army forces and allied militias have been battling to retake the city, Isis's last Iraqi stronghold, since Monday... READ MORE›
Most of its 20,000 residents remained in Qayyara after the ISIL invasion, living under the group's rule for two years... READ MORE›
As Islamic State has retreated, it has lashed out, with local residents such as those of Hammam al-Alil paying the price... READ MORE›
Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Oct. 17 launched an offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major city stronghold in Iraq... READ MORE›
Reuters Alaa Al-Marjani Photo Iraqi security forces are pictured during a battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq February 26, 2017... READ MORE›
AP Photo Peshmerga military vehicles drive in Nawaran north of Mosul during an operation to attack Islamic State militants, Iraq October 26, 2016... READ MORE›
Buildings are decimated and the sky is thick with smoke from oil ISIS is burning to restrict aircraft around al-Qayyara, the frontline south of Mosul... READ MORE›
MAKHMOUR, Iraq -- The Iraqi army soldiers smoked nervously as they described their ordeal... READ MORE›
Reuters Alaa Al-Marjani Photo Iraqi security forces are pictured during a battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq February 26, 2017... READ MORE›
The fire was out on Saturday, Iraqi state TV has reported... READ MORE›
The Iraqi military statement named the villages recaptured as al-Nasr, Garmandi, Kudila and Khurburdan... READ MORE›
PMU fighters captured the road linking Tal Afar to Sinjar, west of Mosul, and linked up with Kurdish forces there, according to Iraqi security officials... READ MORE›
Kirkuk is located east of Hawija, a pocket still under the control of Islamic State that lies between Baghdad and Mosul... READ MORE›
Islamic State used to ship at least 50 tanker truckloads a day from Qayyara and nearby Najma oilfields to neighboring Syria... READ MORE›
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declares victory over Islamic State in the city of Mosul... READ MORE›
A U.S. military official estimated there were fewer than a couple of hundred Islamic State fighters in Qaraqosh... READ MORE›
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