ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — In the year since the Islamic State captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, a picture has emerged of the events surrounding the stunning collapse of the local defense ...

American troops took the northern city of Mosul without a fight and awaited surrender from holdout forces in western Iraq today, dismantling the remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime. U.S. officials ...

On the eastern outskirts of Mosul lies the village of Tobzawa, home to the Shabak minority, where Amina */sup> lives. When the Islamic State group (IS) took control of Mosul in 2014 and declared its ...

ERBIL, Iraq (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Under a scorching sun, men in northern Iraq work to replace dirt roads with asphalt as a mechanical paver rumbles nearby. The laborers are from Harshm camp, ...

As Iraqi and Kurdish troops began the operation to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State, with help from U.S. advisers and air power, my mind flashed back to my visit to the city in 2003. It was not ...

So much for al Qaeda being on a path to defeat, as President Obama used to be fond of boasting. On Tuesday fighters for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, an al Qaeda affiliate known as ISIS, ...

Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists statehood experiment -- but not a fatal one. The northern Iraqi city ...

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.

For months, Alia Ali endured the din of fighting in Iraq's second city Mosul. Then a missile slammed into her home, killing her husband and her hearing. The 59-year-old lost her sense of sound in the ...

new video loaded: Iraqi panel finds former PM responsible for fall of Mosul An Iraqi parliamentary panel calls for dozens of officials, including former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, to be tried for ...

Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, fell today to jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a group with long ties to al Qaeda. Parts of Kirkuk, ninety miles to the southeast, are ...