IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

Feb 27, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in west Mosul reached the city's southernmost bridge Monday, a key step in efforts to defeat the jihadists in thei...

Iraq forces in west Mosul aim for key bridge

Feb 26, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces battled jihadists in west Mosul on Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the...

Ululations, pleas for cigarettes as Iraq forces enter Mosul

Feb 24, 2017 (AFP)

As Iraqi forces entered west Mosul on Friday, for the first time since they launched their operation against the Islamic State group stronghold, curious childre...

Iraq forces enter IS-held Mosul airport

Feb 23, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces on Thursday thrust into Mosul airport on the southern edge of the jihadist stronghold for the first time since the Islamic State group overran the ...

Iraq forces poised for Mosul airport assault

Feb 22, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces readied on Wednesday for an assault on Mosul airport after blitzing jihadist positions in a renewed offensive to retake the Islamic State group's e...

US forces have come under fire in Mosul fight: official

Feb 22, 2017 (AFP)

US forces have been involved in firefights with Islamic State jihadists in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a coalition official acknowledged Wednesday, as American tro...

Iraq forces press assault on IS south of Mosul

Feb 21, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces consolidated positions Tuesday after blasting their way to the southern edge of Mosul in an assault Baghdad and its partners hope will spell the do...

Iraq forces battle IS to close in on Mosul's west bank

Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way towards southern Mosul on Monday and prepared to take on the Islamic State group's stronghold in t...

Iraq forces converge on Mosul airport

Feb 20, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces backed by jets and helicopters battled their way to Mosul airport Monday as they prepared to take on the Islamic State group's stronghold in the ci...

Iraq forces say two villages retaken in new Mosul assault

Feb 19, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces led by federal police units retook two villages south of Mosul as part of a fresh push on the city's west bank Sunday, a top commander said. Army S...

Mosul civilians divided over Iraqi army advice to 'stay at home'

Feb 19, 2017 (AFP)

The first four months of the Iraqi offensive on Mosul were marked by relatively low displacement but the civilians who remain in the city's west face more dange...

Iraq digs anti-IS trench around city of Ramadi

Feb 19, 2017 (AFP)

Security forces in Iraq's western region of Anbar began digging a trench around the provincial capital Ramadi Sunday to protect it against infiltrations by the ...

Iraq forces launch assault to retake west Mosul

Feb 19, 2017 (AFP)

Iraqi forces launched an offensive on jihadists defending Mosul's west bank Sunday, in what could be the most brutal fighting yet in a four-month-old operation ...

Thousands turn out for Baghdad 'silent protest'

Feb 17, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr, held a silent protest in central Baghdad on Friday, a week after a rally demanding electoral refo...

Huge Baghdad car bomb kills at least 52

Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)

A powerful car bomb ripped through a used car market in the south of Iraq's capital Thursday, killing more than 50 people in the deadliest such attack this year...

West Mosul eating once a day and bracing for worse

Feb 15, 2017 (AFP)

As the noose tightens around holdout jihadists in west Mosul, so does the belt around the waists of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped there with ...

Baghdad suicide car bomb kills nine: official

Feb 15, 2017 (AFP)

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in a Shiite majority neighbourhood of Baghdad Wednesday, killing at least nine people, an interior minist...

Thousands pay homage to victims of Baghdad protest

Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of Iraqis, mostly supporters of prominent cleric Moqtada Sadr, gathered in Baghdad Tuesday to pay their respects to seven people killed last week duri...

Valentine's Day returns to Iraq's IS-free east Mosul

Feb 14, 2017 (AFP)

Valentine's Day returned Tuesday to the eastern sector of the Iraqi city of Mosul from where the Islamic State group was expelled last month, at least for a gro...

Iraq hits IS commanders, Baghdadi fate unclear: statement

Feb 13, 2017 (AFP)

The Iraqi air force has targeted a meeting of commanders from the Islamic State group that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been attending, a statement ...