The battle for the Islamic State bastion of Mosul sounds like more of the same to American veterans who helped secure the Iraqi metropolis during the U.S. occupation. U.S. forces spent years battling ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — 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 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister presided over the official reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul’s Old City Monday, eight years after the mosque ...

The runway of Mosul International Airport in northern Iraq before its reinauguration early on July 16, 2025 [Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has inaugurated the ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as a defining symbol of Mosul - until it was ...

MOSUL, Iraq – As the battle for Mosul raged around them last year, Rabah Mahmoud Ali and his family were ejected from their home by armed militants. After Iraqi forces took back control, they returned ...

MOSUL, Iraq, Sept 8 (Reuters) - When the Iraqi city of Mosul went into lockdown in March, Mohammed Sattar, who lost both his legs when his house was shelled in 2017, found himself unable to see the ...

Pope Francis made an emphatic appeal for peaceful coexistence in Iraq on Sunday as he prayed for the country’s war dead amid the ruins of four demolished churches in Mosul, which suffered widespread ...

A lion named Simba and a bear named Lula are the zoo's only surviving animals. — -- It took two rescue attempts and nearly two weeks to successfully evacuate the last two surviving animals from a ...

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A spruced-up Baghdad is welcoming Arab leaders this week to declare that war is over and Iraq is open for business. To Um Qassim, carrying her shopping beside a rubbish-filled ...