IRAQ WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze

Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)

After enduring two years of tyranny under the Islamic State group and surviving the war that liberated them, displaced civilians in northern Iraq face a new ene...

Iraqis in liberated Mosul district wave white flags

Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)

The women ululated as residents waved white flags Sunday in celebration of Iraqi forces who drove Islamic State group jihadists from their eastern Mosul neighbo...

Overshadowed by coalition, Iraqi aviation takes on IS

Nov 26, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi army pilot Hossam Jassim banked his helicopter sharply to the left as a Russian-made Mi-35 gunship flying alongside unleashed a missile at a suspected Isl...

IS truck bomb in Iraq sows carnage among Shiite pilgrims

Nov 25, 2016 (AFP)

A suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed at least 70 people, mainly Shiite pilgrims, south of Baghdad on Thursday, as Iraqi forces battle to ...

Iraq forces cut off IS-held Mosul from Syria

Nov 23, 2016 (AFP)

Forces battling the Islamic State group in northern Iraq cut off the jihadists' last supply line from Mosul to Syria Wednesday, trapping them in the city for a ...

Coalition destroys Mosul bridge to isolate jihadists

Nov 22, 2016 (AFP)

The US-led coalition bombed a key bridge in Mosul Tuesday to isolate jihadists whose stiff resistance in the east of the city is threatening to bog down Iraqi f...

Iraq militias train sights on key IS-held town near Mosul

Nov 21, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi militia fighters peered from a front line position at Tal Afar, a town still held by jihadists, as sniper bullets rang overhead and mortar rounds crashed ...

Informants and interrogations crucial to Mosul advance

Nov 19, 2016 (AFP)

Identification cards and cell phones in hand, dozens of Iraqi men and boys trudge down a dusty road in eastern Mosul towards intelligence officials waiting appr...

Uprooted by IS, Iraq's Yazidis yearn to rebuild lives

Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)

Cramped in a tarpaulin tent with his family of nine, Ali Mahmud remembers his spacious ancestral home in the northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa he last set foot in ...

New suspected IS mass grave found near Mosul

Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces have found another suspected mass grave containing the remains of victims of the Islamic State group in territory recaptured from the jihadists nea...

Iraqis move on airports in month-old Mosul battle

Nov 17, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces piled pressure on the Islamic State group around Mosul Thursday, moving closer to cutting off the jihadists' escape route west to Syria and thrusti...

A month into Mosul assault, tough fighting still ahead

Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces have broken into jihadist-held Mosul and recaptured neighbourhoods inside the city, but a month into their offensive, there are still weeks or more...

'Take cover!' Tackling IS car bombs in Iraq

Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)

It only takes a split second for the expression on the Iraqi soldier's face to transform from relaxed contentment to absolute terror. "Car bomb!" The scream sli...

Iraq Christians tell tales of survival in the 'caliphate'

Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)

They were threatened, forced to spit on a crucifix or convert to Islam, but a handful of Iraqi Christians miraculously survived more than two years under Islami...

At Iraq's Nimrud, remnants of fabled city IS sought to destroy

Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)

Ali al-Bayati clambered onto the remains of a giant winged bull statue that once stood as a protector of Iraq's fabled ancient Nimrud before the Islamic State g...

Battle with IS leaves melting pot Iraq town in ruins

Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)

Dilshad Salim stares in disbelief at the devastated ruins of his hometown Bashiqa in northern Iraq several days after Kurdish forces took it back from the Islam...

Iraqi forces say recapture ancient city of Nimrud

Nov 13, 2016 (AFP)

Iraqi forces said on Sunday they had recaptured the site of an ancient Assyrian city blown up by the Islamic State group, as they battled the jihadists south of...

Mosul area retaken, but still danger of IS attack

Nov 13, 2016 (AFP)

A black Humvee speeds down a dusty road in eastern Mosul carrying two boys: one is dead, and the other's leg has been torn open by the same mortar strike. "Save...

In Iraq village, children reclaim their school after IS

Nov 13, 2016 (AFP)

"One bullet plus one bullet equals? Two bullets!" This is how the children of the small Iraqi village of Jaraf were taught mathematics during two years of jihad...

'Intense' fighting in Mosul as civilians flee

Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)

Elite Iraqi forces engaged in "intense" fighting with jihadists in eastern Mosul Saturday, an officer said, as civilians who had been trapped by the fighting so...