The U.S. support mission for the battle of Mosul is not likely to require additional troops beyond the 600 just authorized by President Barack Obama, a military spokesman in Baghdad said Thursday.

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2016 file photo, Iraqi special forces soldiers deployed for an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants prepare to move out from a camp near Khazer, Iraq.

BAGHDAD – When Iraq's top generals finalized the plan to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group, they gave themselves six months to finish the job. "It was the maximum time cap," Prime ...

In Mosul, that strategy will be put to the test as U.S. and Western forces are forced to coordinate their support, chiefly in the form of airstrikes, with 80,000 troops advancing from different ...

As the battle of Mosul rages, the U.S. military may learn the hard lesson soon: You can’t fabricate a good army general. You get one only after decades of proven and tested experience in battle.

CNN reports from Qayyara air base south of Mosul, the largest forward US military position in Iraq helping to direct the campaign against ISIS.

The 2004 Battle of Mosul, as it came to be called, cost the lives of 18 American service members, five Iraqi security forces personnel, and resulted in more than 170 American and 30 Iraqi soldiers ...

A cheat sheet for the Battle of Mosul By . Benny Avni. Published Oct. 17, 2016. ... ISIS’s victory came about two years after President Obama ordered all US troops out of Iraq.

So while the Battle of Mosul is likely to be a military victory for the alliance President Obama supports, it would be unwise for him to claim — once again — that “the tide of war is ...

U.S.-backed Iraqi troops pushed into the last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul on Sunday, an Iraqi commander said, formally launching the final major battle of an eight-month campaign to drive ...

The U.S. Army is sending an “unspecified” number of combat troops from its 82nd Airborne Division to bring the pain to the Islamic State in the strategically important city of Mosul in ...