QAYYARA/BAGHDAD, Iraq — Islamic State fighters kept up on Wednesday their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops there and forced an elite army unit east of ...

IRAQ (CNN) – Iraq’s federal police forces and army troops attacked the ISIS-held town of Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, on Saturday as Iraqi-led coalition forces seek to drive back ISIS militants ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on the battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 4.30 p.m. Iraqi commanders say their forces have driven Islamic State militants out ...

SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq-The Iraqi army was trying on Thursday to reach a town south of Mosul where Islamic State has reportedly executed dozens to deter the population against any attempt to support the ...

BAGHDAD – The stench of death drew Iraqi soldiers to the unsettled plot of land freshly liberated from Islamic State fighters. When a bulldozer scraped the ground, bones poked from just beneath the ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi government forces advancing on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul retook a village from IS on Tuesday and linked up along the Tigris river with army units pushing from a ...

An Iraqi cameraman was killed on Saturday covering a military offensive to wrest the city of Mosul back from the Islamic State group, his channel said. The young reporter was killed "covering the ...

Iraqi forces have captured a key airbase from the Islamic State group that can serve as a launchpad for retaking the jihadist-held city of Mosul, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday. The ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest developments in Iraq's operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local): 6 a.m. New Zealand on Tuesday announced that it ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's military closed in on Wednesday on the centre of Shirqat, a northern town held by Islamic State seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture the jihadists' ...

HASANSHAM, Iraq – Abdelwahed Mahmoud first learnt of the impending military offensive on Mosul three weeks ago, when leaflets dropped from planes began raining down on his village, Gelyuhan, a few ...

Two years after fleeing Mosul, half-a-million people remain uprooted from their homes, while military activities in the north and south-east of Iraq's second largest city are causing fresh ...