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Number of civilians fleeing Mosul swells: aid group
May 13, 2017 (AFP)
Iraq forces are battling the Islamic State group in the western half of Mosul and nearing a final push to root out the jihadists from their last redoubts in its...
Iraq forces launch anti-IS push in western desert
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
The army, backed by aircraft from the US-led coalition and local tribal fighters, launched their sweep at dawn in desert areas of Anbar province where the jihad...
Jihadists snaring starving civilians in Mosul death trap
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi forces are closing in fast on the Old City and its narrow streets, where the Islamic State group is expected to focus its significantly depleted military ...
Iraq forces advance in west Mosul
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
With Iraq's biggest military operation in years set to enter its eighth month in a week, the Islamic State group was only holding on to a handful of neighbourho...
Anti-corruption activists kidnapped in Baghdad; West Mosul battles on
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
"Unidentified gunmen in SUVs abducted seven university students early Monday morning," an interior ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said...
IS attack on Kurdish base in Iraq kills two
May 07, 2017 (AFP)
"Two members of the peshmerga were killed and five wounded in a suicide attack on K1 base," a major general in the peshmerga told AFP on condition of anonymity....
In ruins of Iraq Christian town, fires a sign of rebirth
May 06, 2017 (AFP)
Almost three years after fleeing the town, families are beginning to return and the first thing they do is burn old household items, a way of cleaning their hom...
Iraq forces launch new push on IS in west Mosul
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
The assault is aimed at sealing the siege of the Old City, where die-hard jihadists holding huge numbers of civilians hostage are preparing for a bloody last st...
11 journalists killed in Iraq in past year: watchdog
May 03, 2017 (AFP)
"From May 3, 2016 to May 3 (this year), 11 journalists were killed and 44 wounded across Iraq, including the Kurdistan region," said the Journalistic Freedoms O...
IS attack in western Iraq kills 10 soldiers: officers
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
The latest attack near the remote outpost of Rutba brought to at least 26 the number of members of the Iraqi security forces killed by the Islamic State group i...
'Baghdaddy': New York turns Iraq war into musical
May 01, 2017 (AFP)
"Baghdaddy" officially opens on Monday, telling the true story of an Iraqi defector, code named Curveball, whose claims about weapons of mass destruction became...
In Iraq's Mosul, mobile clinics deliver precious medical care
May 01, 2017 (AFP)
For these Iraqis, displaced by fierce fighting as government forces close in on the Old City where Islamic State group jihadists are still entrenched, free medi...
US service member killed in blast near Iraqi city of Mosul
Apr 29, 2017 (AFP)
A statement from the US Central Command, which oversees military activities in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, did not identify the victim. It s...
Car bomb attack kills four in Baghdad: spokesman
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
The blast took place in Karrada, a neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital that has been repeatedly targeted in recent years. Interior ministry spokesman Saad Maan s...
Iraqi forces seize ancient site of Hatra from IS
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitary forces fighting IS around Iraq's second city Mosul said they had "liberated the ancient city of Hatra... af...
IS terrorises Mosul civilians as Iraq forces advance
Apr 25, 2017 (AFP)
The elite Counter-Terrorism Service retook full control of Tenek -- one of the largest neighbourhoods in west Mosul -- further tightening the noose on the Islam...
Frontline clinic window on hell of IS-held Mosul areas
Apr 25, 2017 (AFP)
Dozens of wounded are rushed in every day to receive emergency assistance from the staff at the small facility of Al-Shabkhun in the heart of west Mosul, which ...
Volunteers search rubble to save Mosul university
Apr 24, 2017 (AFP)
He is part of a unit of four volunteers working relentlessly to bring the university back to life three months after the damage it suffered during an Iraqi offe...
Western Iraq ambush on military convoy kills 10
Apr 23, 2017 (AFP)
A local commander said the attackers were disguised as military and took advantage of a sandstorm to ambush a convoy near the town of Rutba, a remote outpost on...
Iraq forces free 11-year-old Yazidi girl in Mosul
Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)
The girl was taken by the jihadists from the village of Kosho, south of the Yazidi hub of Sinjar in northern Iraq, together with her mother and sisters. She was...
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