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Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive on Mosul to dislodge ISIS fighters, more than a hundred villages have been liberated. But the battle for Mosul continues.

British intelligence informed Iraqi police that a female suicide bomber was on her way to Mosul, where she planned to blow ...

A member of the community police in Mosul, July 2020. Photo: Tahreer Association. This project seeks to contextualise internationally-backed centralised efforts to demilitarise the local Iraqi police ...

But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent envoys to him to discuss last week's government offensive in Basra. The offensive sparked fighting between security forces in other ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

IRAQI troops took more of the northern city of Mosul from Isis yesterday after the extremists carried out more terror attacks. Military officials said troops had ...

According to the book, British intelligence informed Iraqi police as soon as Francis arrived in Baghdad that a woman wearing explosives was heading toward Mosul and was planning to blow herself up ...

IRAQI forces worked yesterday to clear districts on the eastern edge of Islamic State (Isis)-occupied Mosul as revenge bombings across the country killed at least 20 people. Isis claimed ...

Kurdish forces taking part in the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants ... city of Kirkuk last week On Monday, a police source reported continuing clashes ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.