MOSUL, Iraq - One informer said he hid the sim card from his mobile phone in a water filter to avoid detection by Islamic State. Another concealed his in a sack of rice and made calls to his Iraqi ...

Before Islamic States seized Mosul in 2014, the northern Iraqi city had thrived as a center of culture and trade for centuries. Now, large swathes of its western half lie in ruins. As Mosul begins to ...

MOSUL, Iraq – Iraq's prime minister declared victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul after more than eight months of some of the toughest fighting Iraqi forces have faced in the more than 3-year ...

The mounds of debris around her bear witness to the violence Iraq’s second-largest city has endured. From Mosul, IS had proclaimed its caliphate in 2014. Three years later, Iraqi forces backed by a ...

The cities have been besieged by ISIS since 2014. — -- Separated by less than 250 miles, the people of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria are awaiting liberation from the Islamic State (ISIS). Two ...

During ISIS' occupation of Mosul, many items were forbidden from being sold. Consequently, shops from CD stores to barbers were forced to close. Shopkeepers are now reopening their stores as life ...

In West Mosul, 110 schools have reopened to welcome nearly 81,000 children. — -- Three years ago when Rauiya Saed was in the third grade, ISIS militants took over her neighborhood in West Mosul ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For nearly 2½ miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City is a crumpled landscape of broken ...

Inside Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, glimmers of a once vibrant and beautiful metropolis strive to shine through its bomb-blasted structures. In October 2016, two years after the Islamic State ...

MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Young volunteers have been clearing dust and debris from St. Thomas church in Mosul, as the Iraqi city occupied by Islamic State militants seeks to sweep away the ...

A few days ago, Mahmoud Saeed boarded a plane for a trip that is sure to be filled with trepidation. He wasn’t a Californian returning to a wildfire-singed Sonoma County town, or a Puerto Rican going ...