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

ISIS chief Baghdadi flees Mosul, hiding in desert: officials

From their efforts to track him, they believe he hides mostly among sympathetic civilians in familiar desert villages.

9 March 2017 11:18 AM IST

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 troops push for Mosul after 2-week lull

Backed by airstrikes, Iraqi special forces, army troops and federal police launched a push on five neighborhoods early...

29 Dec 2016 1:16 PM IST

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

Mosul's last bridge disabled by airstrike: residents

The northern city of Mosul had five bridges spanning the Tigris River, which runs through the center of the city.

28 Dec 2016 12:39 PM IST

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during a press conference in Baghdad. (Photo: AFP)

3 months needed to rout ISIS, says Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi

Abadi had previously pledged the northern city would be retaken by the end of this year.

28 Dec 2016 9:15 AM IST

Damaged buildings in old Aleppos Jdeideh neighbourhood after an intense bombing campaign. (Photo: AFP)

Mosul, Aleppo, Ankara... Future is bleak

Russia and Iran now seem like the dominant regional powers, but will this survive the presidential transition in...

27 Dec 2016 2:16 AM IST

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 8:23 PM IST

ISIS was forced out of Palmyra after intense Russian raids. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Iraq launches attack on ISIS-held west Mosul

The Islamic State group has put up stiff resistance to defend Mosul, where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed a

19 Feb 2017 9:36 PM IST

Journalist Shifa Gardi (Photo: Instagram)

Iraqi Kurdish woman TV reporter killed in Mosul: channel

She was killed by an explosive device on the road while her cameraman was wounded.

25 Feb 2017 8:23 PM IST

A member of the Iraqi Special Forces shoots his machine gun against an Islamic State militant drone, in Mosul. (Photo: AP)

Unravelling the story of a mass grave in Iraq

Investigators are facing the enormous task of piecing together details of what happened to IS's many victims, and...

20 Dec 2016 3:46 PM IST

A Iraqi man wounded in a car bomb attack in the liberated district of Gogjali is seen at his arrival to a Hospital in Irbil, Iraq. (Photo: AP)

Iraqi air force drops empathy letters on Mosul

According to the coalition, the letters are based on 2,160 hand-written notes penned in the days since the Mosul...

23 Dec 2016 12:13 PM IST