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'Many months' before start of battle for Mosul: coalition
Jan 29, 2016 (AFP)
An assault to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group won't start for many months, a spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting the jihadis...
Coalition adapts Iraq training to breach IS defences
Jan 27, 2016 (AFP)
US-led coalition troops have adapted their training for Iraqi forces to teach them how to breach Islamic State group defences in larger-scale combined assaults ...
Mass grave of IS victims found in Iraq's Ramadi: police
Jan 26, 2016 (AFP)
Security forces found a mass grave in the Iraqi city of Ramadi containing the remains of at least 18 people killed by the Islamic State group, police said Tuesd...
Iraq approved for $1.9B F-16 weapons/munitions buy
Jan 21, 2016 (UPI)
Iraq has been given U.S. State Department approval to buy weapons, munitions and equipment for F-16 fighters under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program. The ...
'Hundreds' of Western trainers need to help in Mosul push
Jan 20, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi security forces will need help from "hundreds" of Western military trainers ahead of a planned assault to recapture the city of Mosul from Islamic State j...
'Staggering' death toll for Iraqi civilians since 2014: UN
Jan 19, 2016 (AFP)
The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq over the past two years is "staggering", the United Nations said Tuesday, with at least 18,802 people killed ...
US and Iraq search for Americans kidnapped in Baghdad
Jan 18, 2016 (AFP)
US and Iraqi authorities were searching Monday for three missing Americans said to have been kidnapped in Baghdad, the latest group of foreign nationals abducte...
US-led military campaign focusing on Raqa, Mosul: Pentagon chief
Jan 13, 2016 (AFP)
Raqa in Syria and the Iraqi city of Mosul are in the US-led coalition's crosshairs as it tries to build on recent successes against the Islamic State group, Pen...
Two Iraqi journalists shot dead, intel officer wounded
Jan 12, 2016 (AFP)
Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi journalists on Tuesday in Diyala, a province where Baghdad declared victory a year ago but which is still plagued by chronic violence...
IS attack in Baghdad kills at least 20: officials
Jan 11, 2016 (AFP)
An attack by the Islamic State group involving a car bomb, a gunfight and a hostage-taking left at least 20 people dead in Baghdad Monday, security and medical ...
Iraqi families risk all to flee jihadist-held Hawijah
Jan 10, 2016 (AFP)
Hundreds of families are fleeing hunger and jihadist rule in the Iraqi city of Hawijah and surrounding areas, witnesses and officials said Sunday. Many have die...
Fears of more strife as Iraq in middle of regional row
Jan 06, 2016 (AFP)
Sectarian attacks south of Baghdad have aroused local fears that an escalating row between the region's Sunni and Shiite powerhouses could plunge Iraq back into...
25 Iraq fighters killed thwarting IS assault: commander
Jan 05, 2016 (AFP)
At least 25 Iraqi fighters have been killed repelling a major three-day offensive by the Islamic State group in the western region of Haditha, security sources ...
Two Sunni mosques bombed, muezzin killed in Iraq
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, ...
IS jihadists kill 12 in raid on Iraq police trainees
Jan 03, 2016 (AFP)
Suicide attackers from the Islamic State group killed at least 12 Iraqi forces Sunday in a brazen attack on police training at a military base, officials said. ...
Iraq forces extend Ramadi control, rescue civilians
Jan 01, 2016 (AFP)
Iraqi forces pushed out of central Ramadi Friday to extend their grip on the city, sweeping neighbourhoods for pockets of jihadists to flush out and trapped civ...
Iraq declares Ramadi liberated from IS, sweeps for bombs
Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq declared the city of Ramadi liberated from the Islamic State group Monday and raised the national flag over its government complex after clinching a landma...
Sunni tribal fighters deployed in reconquered Ramadi areas
Dec 29, 2015 (AFP)
Tribal fighters deployed in Ramadi Tuesday, a step towards providing the reconquered Iraqi city with a force both capable of preventing the jihadists' return an...
Iraqi forces in fierce battles with IS in Ramadi
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Die-hard jihadists made a desperate last stand Saturday in Ramadi's former government complex, the main remaining target of Iraqi forces reconquering the city t...
Iraqi Kurdish forces in anti-IS commando raid
Dec 26, 2015 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish forces carried out a commando operation near Hawijah in which several senior members of the Islamic State group were captured or killed, local and...
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