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At least three killed in Mosul suicide attacks: officials
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
The attack struck the Muthanna neighbourhood late on Friday as residents shopped ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of...
In Mosul, ghostly civilians emerge from Old City hell
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
They come in small groups, dropped off by the armoured vehicles of the Iraqi security forces on dusty, deserted streets where emergency field clinics are set up...
Bomber sows death among civilians fleeing Mosul
Jun 23, 2017 (AFP)
The carnage came just over a day after the Islamic State group blew up the mosque where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed himself "caliph" three years ...
Mosul's 'hunchback' minaret: Iraq's beloved landmark
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Hadba, "hunchback" in Arabic, was completed in the 12th century and stood as the last remnant of the original Nuri mosque, whose rebuilt version was also de...
IS destroys iconic Mosul minaret as Iraqi forces advance
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
Explosions on Wednesday evening levelled both the Nuri mosque where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi gave his first sermon as leader of the Islamic State group and its anci...
IS blows up Mosul mosque where Baghdadi became 'caliph'
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
The Islamic State group swiftly issued a statement via its Amaq propaganda agency blaming a US strike, but the US-led coalition condemned the destruction as a c...
Deep in Mosul, US forces support Iraq's fight
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Senior Iraqi officers huddle around a map showing their forces' advance against the Islamic State group in Mosul's Old City, as walkie-talkies crackle with stra...
Iraqi forces advance in Mosul Old City, rescue civilians
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
Staff Lieutenant General Abdulghani al-Assadi, a senior commander in the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), said the battle was proceeding as expected but that pr...
Covering Mosul: a deadly city in a dangerous country
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
A mine blast killed Iraqi Kurdish journalist Bakhtiyar Addad, 28, on Monday. His French colleague Stephan Villeneuve later died of his wounds and two other Fren...
Iraqi forces push into Mosul Old City, warn IS 'surrender or die'
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces launched the operation Sunday to retake the district, the last part of Iraq's second city still held by IS after a months-long offensive. Commander...
Wheel of fate spins at screening centre in Iraq's Mosul
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
Haggard-looking men sit on nearby bumper cars and others on the ground in the shade, waiting anxiously for army officers to call out their names. The small fair...
100,000 civilians held by IS in Mosul's Old City as 'human shields': UN
Jun 16, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces are fighting to retake Mosul from IS, after the jihadist group overran the city in 2014, imposing its brutal rule on its inhabitants. The UN refuge...
Police ban face veil to guard Iraq's post-IS Mosul
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces, who have retaken eastern Mosul from the Islamic State group after three years of jihadist rule, have banned the face veil as part of a package of ...
Ramadan comes with bitter taste for families of Iraq's Mosul
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
"Our homes and cars have been destroyed, our family separated," said the former bank manager in Iraq's second largest city. "Why should we have to wait here in ...
Terrified civilians hide from gunfire in Mosul pre-school
Jun 13, 2017 (AFP)
Confused, scared and exhausted, the civilians -- mostly women, including one in a wheelchair -- huddle in the pre-school after Iraqi forces brought them in for ...
Down to the river for youths from Iraq's embattled Mosul
Jun 12, 2017 (AFP)
The river which flows into the mighty Tigris has been providing a welcome escape for dozens of youths displaced by fighting to oust Islamic State (IS) group jih...
Tired, traumatised Mosul mothers unable to breastfeed
Jun 11, 2017 (AFP)
"He's been crying since the moment he was born. He only stops when he's so exhausted that he falls asleep," the 24-year-old Iraqi mother said, sheltering her ba...
Iraq paramilitaries make fresh progress west of Mosul
Jun 10, 2017 (AFP)
The umbrella organisation, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, has been fighting primarily on a separate western front since the battle to retake...
Iraq on cusp of Mosul victory three years after major defeat
Jun 09, 2017 (AFP)
The fall of Mosul was the worst defeat that Iraqi forces suffered in the war with IS, and regaining it would cap a major turnaround for security forces that bro...
UN reports fresh IS killings, air strike deaths in Mosul
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
Between 50 to 80 more civilians were reportedly killed in a May 31 air strike on the IS-controlled Mosul neighbourhood of Zanjilly, said a statement from the of...
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