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Iraqis accused of siding with IS targeted for revenge: UN
Jul 17, 2017 (AFP)
Jan Kubis told the UN Security Council that he was concerned by a "rising popular sentiment in favor of collective punishment of families perceived to be associ...
Return to Mosul a distant dream for many displaced
Jul 15, 2017 (AFP)
On Monday, the Iraqi authorities announced victory over the jihadists of the Islamic State group. But the unprecedented destruction in the country's second city...
Iraq's Mosul residents search for their Old City dead
Jul 14, 2017 (AFP)
"I had a little supermarket. I had worked hard from the age of 10 to build my house," the Iraqi Kurd in his 40s said, seated on a rubble-strewn pavement in fron...
Mosul's once-thriving Old City now a grey wasteland
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
After months of gruelling battles to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, the Old City has become a bleak landscape of gutted buildings, crumbling concret...
US eyes continued presence in Iraq after IS: general
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend said the Iraqi government had expressed an interest in having US and coalition troops stay in the country. "Our government i...
Iraqi PM hails victory over 'brutality and terrorism' in Mosul
Jul 11, 2017 (AFP)
Standing with members of the security forces, Abadi hailed the retaking of Mosul -- where IS dealt Iraqi troops a devastating defeat three years ago -- as a key...
Iraqi forces push to clear last pockets of IS in Mosul
Jul 10, 2017 (AFP)
With the jihadists surrounded in a sliver of territory in Mosul's Old City, attention was turning to the huge task of rebuilding the city and of helping civilia...
Mosul victory imminent, US says, as Iraqi forces celebrate
Jul 08, 2017 (AFP)
The defeat would be the biggest yet for the Islamic State group three years since it seized Mosul in a lightning offensive, swept across much of the country's S...
US judge again puts off deportations of Iraqis
Jul 07, 2017 (AFP)
US District Judge Mark Goldsmith on Thursday extended an earlier stay that would have expired July 10. "The substantial allegations made here are the detainees ...
Up to 20,000 civilians trapped in IS-held areas of Mosul: UN
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
More than eight months since the start of the operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, the jihadists have gone from fully controlling the city to...
Civilians trapped as Iraq forces battle IS in Mosul
Jul 06, 2017 (AFP)
In neighbouring Syria, US-backed forces are facing fierce resistance from IS as they wage a parallel offensive to recapture the city of Raqa from the jihadists....
Tougher fighting, more suicide attacks as IS hits back in Mosul
Jul 03, 2017 (AFP)
Following recent suicide bombings by two girls, security forces in the Old City were seen ordering civilians to remove some of their clothing before approaching...
Iraqis mark first anniversary of devastating Baghdad blast
Jul 02, 2017 (AFP)
The bombing -- the deadliest single such attack to hit the country since 2003 -- sparked raging fires in a shopping area early on July 3, 2016 as it teemed with...
Iraq battles last few hundred jihadists in Old Mosul
Jul 02, 2017 (AFP)
More than eight months since the country's forces launched a gruelling operation to retake Mosul, IS has gone from fully controlling the city to holding a few n...
Gunfire cuts short celebrations at recaptured Mosul mosque
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
"Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent jihadist leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time he is known to have appeared in p...
Mosul victory in 'days' as IS falls back in Syria
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
IS, which declared a cross-border "caliphate" encompassing swathes of Iraq and Syria three years ago, is now facing twin offensives in Mosul and Raqa, its two m...
Sniper's shot puts focus on Canada's Iraq role
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday would have none of it, saying Canadian troops training Kurdish fighters have orders to also fight in defense of coa...
US court halts deportations of Iraqi nationals
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
US District Judge Mark Goldsmith on Monday expanded nationwide an earlier order affecting mostly Chaldean Christians who were arrested in immigration raids in t...
Iraq forces comb west Mosul after IS counter-attacks
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
Diehard IS fighters are putting up fierce resistance as an Iraqi offensive for Mosul's Old City, where a few hundred jihadists are believed to be holed up, ente...
Iraq forces push deep into devastated Old Mosul
Jun 25, 2017 (AFP)
Three years after overrunning Mosul and making it the de facto Iraqi capital of the "caliphate" they proclaimed, the jihadists only controlled about a square ki...
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