MOSUL, Iraq - Perched atop a mound of rubble, Abdelsattar al-Hibbu surveyed what remained of his second-floor office: twisted iron and centuries-old stone reduced to dust by an airstrike.

MOSUL, Iraq – The Islamic State group's hold on Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, has shrunk to just two square kilometers (about one square mile). After more than eight months of some of the ...

ISIS now controls less than a square mile of territory in the city. — -- ISIS faces defeat in Mosul in northern Iraq, but a growing humanitarian crisis looms for survivors of the battle ...

Mosul has been reclaimed, ... al-Timimi said over three days his forces carried out about 20 air strikes a day on an area of the Old City about one square kilometer in size.

Sheikh Abu Hassan, 70, an organizer of the Mosul demonstrations, said that an ambulance driver had come back to the square after attempting to take injured protesters to local hospitals, and told ...

They were able to cordon off eight villages in an area measuring approximately 38 square miles (100 square kilometers) and secure a significant stretch of the Bashiqa-Mosul highway to limit ISIS ...

A Tough Fight in Western Mosul ... In the three days since the start of the offensive, they have already taken back 48 square miles and are now overlooking the city's airport.

Further glimpses of life under ISIS rule are emerging as more and more refugees flee Mosul, the Iraqi city which is the focus of a major campaign to liberate northern Iraq from jihadist control.

Iraqi forces have retaken Mosul from the Islamic State, more than three years after the terror group overran the city in June 2014, the US-led coalition announced Monday.

There are 50,000 Iraqi ground forces, compared to the 5,000 ISIS fighters thought to be in Mosul. But the extremists have one terrifying weapon, the suicide car bomb, a vehicle laden with explosives.

ISIS’ weapon of choice in Mosul: up-armored suicide trucks (and tractors). A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device arrives at an Iraqi security force’s base near Mosul, Iraq, May 21, 2017 ...

When the Islamic State group rampaged through Iraq's ancient city of Mosul a decade ago, the jihadists killed thousands, upended countless more lives and left deep scars among the survivors. Under ...