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‘I want to embrace all my characters’

For Jussi Adler-Olsen, the celebrated Danish crime fiction writer, writing about a character, any character, is like...

7 Sep 2011 3:24 AM GMT

On edge of Mosul, shoppers savour market life again

On edge of Mosul, shoppers savour market life again

The market has become a place not just to shop, but to work and to talk to savour the newfound freedom of life.

30 Nov 2016 8:44 AM GMT

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

We have information that ISIS leader Baghdadi is alive: Kurdish...

The official said that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located in southern Syria in the city of Raqqa.

17 July 2017 8:49 AM GMT

Pockets of Mosul remain insecure and the city has been heavily damaged by nearly nine months of gruelling urban combat. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi forces combat ISIS days after PM al-Abadi declares victory over...

Army choppers strafed the Old City and blasts sent plumes of smoke into the air, though it was unclear if they were...

13 July 2017 5:10 AM GMT

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (c) shaking hands with army officers upon his arrival in Mosul. (AFP photo)

Iraq PM al-Abadi hails victory' after armed forces take Mosul from...

The battle has left large parts of Mosul in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and displaced nearly 1 million people.

9 July 2017 2:10 PM GMT

Kurdish Peshmerga prepare to fire artillery at Islamic State positions in Bashiqa, east of Mosul. (Photo: AP)

'Intense' fighting in east Mosul: Iraq Army

There are still weeks if not months of fighting ahead in the battle to recapture the last IS-held Iraqi city.

12 Nov 2016 8:18 AM GMT

Iraqi Federal police forces advance towards the western side of Mosul. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi forces recapture one-third of west Mosul

After recapturing east Mosul, Iraqi forces last month set their sites on the west, where hundreds of thousands of...

12 March 2017 2:01 PM GMT

Iraqi forces with the backing of the US-led coalition launched a major offensive to retake Mosul in October 2016. (Photo: AP)

ISIS now controls less than 7 percent of country: Iraq army

Various members of the forces, Iraqi and foreign, battling the jihadists have disagreed in the past on control of...

11 April 2017 12:14 PM GMT

During Tuesdays raid, the convoy of trucks swerved onto a side road and turned into an alley, braking suddenly outside its first target: the home of a suspected IS member. (Photo: AP)

Inside the fight against IS sleeper cells in liberated Mosul

Iraqi intelligence officials estimate dozens of IS fighters and sympathizers remain in hiding in eastern Mosul.

25 Feb 2017 10:03 AM GMT

Iraqi Federal police forces advance towards the western side of Mosul. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi forces drive Islamic State out of Mosul airport

Iraqi forces hope to repair the airport and use it as a base from which to drive the militants from Mosul's western...

24 Feb 2017 3:08 AM GMT

Iraqi forces with the backing of the US-led coalition launched a major offensive to retake Mosul in October 2016. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi police accuse ISIS of chemical weapons attack in Mosul

Iraq's Federal Police said it had made a new push against the ISIS holed up in the Old City.

17 April 2017 4:01 AM GMT