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Iraqi forces moving 'faster than expected' on Mosul: Iraq PM
Oct 20, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi forces are "advancing faster than expected" in a major offensive to recapture Mosul from Islamic State jihadists, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sai...
US tries to end spat threatening Mosul battle
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
US officials are scrambling to end a dispute between Ankara and Baghdad that threatens to derail a carefully developed plan to retake Mosul from the Islamic Sta...
Iraq forces move to retake Christian town on way to Mosul
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi forces prepared to retake the country's largest Christian town from the Islamic State group on Wednesday, a key milestone in their progress towards the ji...
IS leaders 'abandon' Mosul as Iraq forces close in
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
Jihadist leaders are fleeing Mosul, a top US general in the coalition battling the Islamic State group said Wednesday as Iraqi forces closed in on the northern ...
Iraq makes gains in 'difficult' assault on IS-held Mosul
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces were making gains on the Islamic State group in Mosul Tuesday in an offensive US President Barack Obama warned would be a "dif...
Ankara, coalition agree Turkish jets to join Mosul operation: minister
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Turkish jets will continue to take part in the air operation backing Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga to retake Iraq's second city of Mosul from jihadists aft...
IS traps Mosul civilians as human shields, Pentagon says
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Islamic State jihadists are trapping Mosul's civilians to use as human shields, the Pentagon said Tuesday as President Barack Obama warned of "significant" pote...
IS trapping civilians in Mosul, Pentagon says
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
The Pentagon Tuesday accused Islamic State jihadists of barring civilians from leaving Mosul and using them as human shields, as President Barack Obama warned o...
Qayyarah base, the busy back stage of Mosul offensive
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Ambulances speed across the Iraqi base carrying wounded security personnel, while others prepare to head to the front lines in the battle to retake Mosul from j...
Suicide car bomb blast kills 10 south of Baghdad
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
A suicide car bomb explosion targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad Monday killed at least 10 people, security and medical sources said. The blast ...
Battle of Mosul: Anti-IS coalition to take stock on Oct 25
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Defence ministers from the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Mosul and elsewhere in Iraq and Syria will meet in Paris on October 25, F...
Iraq forces launch operations to liberate Mosul from IS
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi forces have launched operations to retake Mosul, a city whose capture by the Islamic State group two years ago left the country on the brink of collapse, ...
US says Mosul a 'decisive moment' in anti-IS campaign
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Sunday that operations to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group were key to defeating the jihadist...
Iraq forces launch battle to retake IS stronghold
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi forces advanced Monday after launching an offensive aimed at retaking Mosul and dealing a death blow to the Islamic State group's "caliphate" in the city ...
Iraqi forces 'ahead of schedule' in Mosul: Pentagon
Oct 17, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces were "ahead of schedule" after the first day of an offensive for the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, a Pentagon official said Monday. A ...
Suicide bombing targeting Shiites kills two in Baghdad
Oct 16, 2016 (AFP)
A suicide bombing targeting Shiite Muslims killed at least two people in Baghdad on Sunday, officials said, a day after the deadliest attack to hit the Iraqi ca...
Attacks including suicide bombings kill 46 in Iraq
Oct 15, 2016 (AFP)
Attacks killed at least 46 people in Iraq on Saturday, including a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group that was the deadliest to hit Baghdad in m...
Dire conditions for children fleeing jihadist-held Iraq area: NGO
Oct 13, 2016 (AFP)
Children fleeing the jihadist-held Hawijah area in north Iraq are dying of thirst and being killed by makeshift bombs, Save the Children said on Thursday. Hawij...
Black-clad pilgrims pack Iraq's Karbala for Ashura
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite Muslim pilgrims thronged the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Wednesday, weeping and beating their chests in mourning for the se...
Iraqi forces deploy to guard huge Shiite pilgrimage
Oct 11, 2016 (AFP)
Thousands of Iraqi security personnel guarded areas in and around Karbala on Tuesday to protect hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims flocking to the shrine ...
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