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Iraqi special focus advance to their next position in the Islah al-Zarai area in Mosul, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

After Mosul, Iraqi forces begin operation to retake Hawija from ISIS...

In the western Anbar province, Iraqi forces retook the town of Rihana on Wednesday, according to a statement from the...

21 Sep 2017 9:02 AM GMT

More than 1,300 women and children surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga in August after government forces expelled the jihadist group from the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar. (Representational Image)

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for ties with...

Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children.

26 Feb 2018 10:09 AM GMT

The demonstrators were trying to reach the Green Zone, which houses government offices and foreign embassies. (Photo: ANI)

Iraqi forces kill several protesters in Baghdad, Basra

According to sources, over 35 people were wounded in clashes near the capital city's Shuhada Bridge.

8 Nov 2019 1:19 PM GMT

Military forces are reportedly moving from the western and northeastern front of Tal Afar. (Photo: AFP)

Islamic States's stronghold Tal Afar about to fall: Iraqi military

'Tal Afar city is about to fall completely into the hands of our forces, only five percent remains' under IS control,...

27 Aug 2017 4:15 AM GMT

An Iraqi forces officer flashes victory gesture from the turret of an armoured vehicle during the advance through Tal Afar, west of Mosul. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq forces take Tal Afar from ISIS

Militants driven out of one of their last strongholds in war-torn country.

27 Aug 2017 1:40 AM GMT

A 2014 report estimated that 18 per cent all European ISIS members were female and the total number is now believed to be more than 550. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi forces all out to retake Tal Afar from ISIS control

Once a key ISIS supply hub between Mosul and the Syrian border, Tal Afar is the last major population centre in north...

20 Aug 2017 9:59 PM GMT

The army has not commented on its troop build-up in Deraa or the escalating aerial bombing. (Photo: Representational/AP)

Suicide bomber attacks displaced Iraqis camp, 14 killed

Iraqi forces retook the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah from ISIS, but the jihadists still hold areas in western Anbar.

3 July 2017 3:40 AM GMT

Internally displaced people flee fighting between Iraqi forces and Islamic State militants on a road in eastern Mosul, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Wounded, hungry: Life in the line of fire in Mosul

So far, 56,000 people have fled their homes in Mosul for camps in the surrounding desert or safer areas during the...

15 Nov 2016 3:31 PM GMT

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

More than 200,000 displaced by Mosul siege: Iraq ministry

Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture Mosul in October, retaking the east of the city before setting their...

25 March 2017 1:20 PM GMT

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

ISIS leader Baghdadi 'flees Mosul' as Iraqi forces advance

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are believed to still be trapped under IS rule in Mosul.

9 March 2017 1:38 PM GMT

Elite Iraqi troops, known as the Golden Division, are the only brigades to have entered Mosul from the east, with Iraqi army, federal police and Kurdish Peshmerga units surrounding the city to the north and south. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi forces retake 60 percent of east Mosul: Commander

Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain inside Mosul, forcing Iraqi and allied forces to take precautions and slowing...

1 Jan 2017 2:53 PM GMT

The 25-year-old mother, who fled west Mosul with her family two weeks earlier, already had no maternal milk to give Maryam five months ago. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Traumatised mothers fail to breastfeed, babies starve in Mosul

The camp southeast of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are deep into the eighth month of a massive operation against the ISIS...

11 Jun 2017 6:49 AM GMT