Mosul

Execution of 58 plotters comes with Iraqi government operation to seize stronghold imminent.

Tom Porter Oct 14, 2016

IS (Daesh) is reported to have rigged five bridges with explosives in Mosul.

Ananya Roy Oct 12, 2016

British military personnel are also engaging in the information battle to defeat the jihadists.

Romil Patel Oct 10, 2016

The battle to retake the city from Isis could begin within weeks.

Mark Piggott Oct 05, 2016

Request follows claim Isis has deployed chemical weapons to Mosul in anticipation of attack.

Tom Porter Oct 04, 2016

Haider al-Abadi faces huge challenge winning back the faith of Iraq's Sunnis

Orlando Crowcroft Sep 27, 2016

Iraqi army units will push towards Mosul from the south while the Kurds wait in the wings

Daniele Palumbo Sep 27, 2016

An assault on Mosul could take place 'in weeks', despite Daesh militants building heavy fortifications.

William Watkinson Sep 24, 2016

A shell, suspected of carrying mustard gas, landed at the Qayyara air base, south of Mosul on 20 September

William Watkinson Sep 22, 2016

The Iraqi army and associated forces are closing in on the city that fell to Isis in June 2014.

William Watkinson Sep 20, 2016

The battle for the Daesh-held city could begin as soon as October.

Matt Thomas Sep 17, 2016

The group has made a U-turn on its burka stance following reports of a veiled woman targeting fighters.

William Watkinson Sep 05, 2016

The youths were reportedly executed in Tal Afar Square in Mosul after forming a resistance faction.

William Watkinson Sep 01, 2016

Human rights watch has said government-funded militias are recruiting children from refugee camps.

Callum Paton Aug 30, 2016

Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service worked with armed locals to drive Daesh out of Qayyarah.

Nicole Rojas Aug 26, 2016

Extremist Islamist group is quicker to kill deserters as tensions mount in the face of Iraqi advance.

Callum Paton Aug 23, 2016

Iraqis from Kirkuk, Fallujah and Mosul struggle as country fails to solve refugee crisis

Diana Eltahawy Aug 19, 2016

Officers can be heard shouting instructions and asking each man their name in search of Isis supporters.

Callum Paton Aug 16, 2016

The move could help anti-Isis troops retake the de facto capital in Iraq from the militants.

Ananya Roy Aug 16, 2016

Multiple reports from Mosul suggest the gruesome execution took place in Shora square.

William Watkinson Aug 15, 2016

Photos of the military campaigns to recapture major Isis strongholds in Syria, Libya and Iraq.

David Sim Aug 11, 2016

Top US military commander says quality and quantity of Daesh fighters declining in Iraq and Syria.

Ananya Roy Aug 11, 2016

The family were trying to escape from al-Marir in Mosul to an area controlled by the Iraqi army.

William Watkinson Aug 04, 2016

A meeting was held in Washington to come up with a plan to throw the Islamic State out of Iraq and Syria.

Ananya Roy Jul 21, 2016

The meeting will also grapple with the refugee fallout of the conflict.

Nandini Krishnamoorthy Jul 20, 2016

Video was shot by helicopter flying above lines of Iraqi armoured vehicles approaching Qyyarah base.

Callum Paton Jul 11, 2016

The extremists are becoming increasingly paranoid as the borders of their self-proclaimed caliphate shrinks.

William Watkinson Jul 07, 2016

The cowardly jihadists were killed by their own men as punishment for fleeing in Sharqat in Salahuddin.

William Watkinson Jul 05, 2016

Isis leader Hayman Galal, known by his nom de Guerre Abi Abdul-Rahman al-Kurdi, was killed with 3 others.

William Watkinson Jun 25, 2016

As well as an offensive to take the Isis-held city of Fallujah, government troops are fighting near Mosul.

Callum Paton Jun 15, 2016