Iraq

Many residents have chosen to stay in Mosul, preferring the risk of crossfire to spending the winter in a cold displacement camp.

Russia has been dependable, forceful, and ruthless where America has been incoherent.

Doctors have said they do not have enough beds or medical supplies as they deal with the influx of wounded.

Major-General Rupert Jones expects an even larger information trove when Mosul falls.

Australia's most senior Isis operative known as Abu Khaled al-Cambodi was reported dead twice in 2016.

The massive explosion happened near the village of Shomali, 60 miles south of Baghdad

Fighters and journalists came under fire at a newly-liberated airport outside Tal Afar.

Nicola Benyahia's son Rasheed, 19, left home on 29 May 2015 and went to Syria to join the Islamic State.

Former Morrisons security guard Omar Hussain says he was shot whilst fighting with the Islamic State.

Arbaeen commemorates the end of a 40-day mourning period after the killing of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, during a battle in 680 AD.

European attacks easier to plan rather than recruits travelling to Syria or Iraq to fight coalition forces.

French-born Rachid Kassim is linked to several terror attacks in Europe and praised the Nice terror attack.

Jack Letts is believed to be the first white Briton to travel to Isis-held Syria in 2014.

Isis appears to have massacred the policemen just one month before start of US-backed forces assault on Mosul.

There is an overwhelming sense of uncertainty as Iraqi special forces press ahead with their offensive on the Islamist group's last big stronghold in Iraq.

The President-elect has contradicted himself often on policy towards Iran and the Arab world.

Campbell MacDiarmid and Razaw Salihy are guests on IBTimesUK's In the Field

Iraqi forces have successfully liberated swathes of eastern Mosul, establishing a foothold in Iraq's second city

Once the capital of an empire stretching across the ancient Middle East, Nimrud was looted and ransacked by the militants.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere banned the group, called The True Religion or Die wahre Religion in German.

IBTimesUK reports from frontline where Islamic State open fire on residents as they flee but Iraqi artillery and air strikes 'have killed dozens'.

Subahani Haja Moideen, 31, said he met a Maharashtra-based couple during his stay in Iraq.

Iraqi forces are four weeks into a campaign to recapture the northern city from Daesh.

The terrorist suspects were arrested with the help of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Nine cars were deployed in suicide bomb attacks and 30 Isis militants were killed.

UN urged Iraqi government to restore rule of law as soon as possible to prevent revenge attacks.

Those who voted for Trump because he promised to beat Isis were grossly misled by his naive foreign knowledge.

The human rights organisation Amnesty International has called on Iraqi authorities to investigate the abuses.

The Pentagon released figures which totalled 119 civilian casualties since 2014.

Hundreds of people have also been abducted from areas around Mosul, including 30 sheikhs.