After suffering widespread destruction during the militant group's occupation, Mosul has reopened some of its iconic ...

FAZILIYA, Iraq—Islamic State fighters are forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people from villages around Mosul to use them as human shields inside the city and have begun systematically ...

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 ...

Reporting from Mosul, Iraq — In the biblical book of Jonah, God wants to destroy the city of Nineveh because of its wickedness, but Jonah begs him to have mercy, and he relents. Today, what was once ...

Mosul is springing back to life. — -- Mosul is springing back to life. Almost five months after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over ISIS in Iraq’s second-largest city, ...

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 ...

MOSUL, Iraq — The Iraqi advance into Mosul’s western half slowed Saturday as combat turned to urban warfare and Iraqi forces met stiff resistance from the Islamic State group. Hundreds of civilians ...

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 ...

People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without Islamic State in years on Sunday after the militants were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to ...

The nine-month U.S.-backed offensive to expel Islamic State militants from Mosul was a relentless and savage fight. Now that it has been won, another daunting battle has begun: to bring Iraq’s ...

In the ravaged heart of this once-vibrant city, a stone’s throw from the Tigris River, Iraqi forces have cornered the last pocket of ISIS fighters. It’s 8 a.m. here Monday, and the Iraqi soldiers’ day ...

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 ...