Mosul

Iraq's defence ministry has said that Daesh media minister Ziad Kharoufa was killed in an air strike.

Christian militias liberating towns near Mosul find devastation in Iraq's largest monastery Mar Behnam.

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

Iraqi forces pushing deeper into Mosul found an Isis flag said to belong to an Australian working as a medic.

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.

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

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

Many of the women have lost families in the fighting and some were taken as sex slaves.

One of six bombers detonated his suicide belt in a house after five others were shot dead by security forces.

The village, the remains of an Assyrian city, is located 30km south of Daesh-controlled Mosul.

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

Video shows men in Iraqi uniforms dragging boy's limp body and placing it under the tank's wheels.

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

Displaced villagers sheltering in camps say Islamic State encourage attacks on civilians.

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

Raqqa is now being targeted to prevent jihadists fleeing there from Mosul in Iraq.

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

A forensics team from Baghdad will investigate the bodies after the discovery near Hammam al-Alil.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have clashed with Islamic State in the north of Raqqa.

Kurdish forces' launched an early morning offensive to retake Bashiqa to the east of Mosul.

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The blasts occurred in Hawija, about 120km south of the Isis stronghold of Mosul.

The UN's Human Rights Agency has said as many as 50 fighters were killed at the Ghazlani military base in Mosul.

The car the pair were travelling was shot when its driver failed to listen to orders from guards.

Crew thought to have fled as Isis hit tank amid most intense clashes in two-week assault on Mosul.

The female fighters sing songs to make the militants angry and tell them they are not afraid of them.

The British foreign secretary brands Baghdadi's recording 'cruelly ironic' as intelligence suggests he fled.

The UNHCR winter assistance programme was launched this week, but remains severely underfunded.