If confirmed, the toll would be one of the worst since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ... alienating Mosul's mostly Sunni population. U.S. Army chief of staff Gen. Mark Milley, after meeting Iraqi ...

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, echoes of war still resonate ... for the rise of extremism and militant factions after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Now, nearly eight years after IS militants ... extends beyond the mosque. Mosul’s Christian sites, also devastated by IS, are ...