The battle for Mosul has begun. The city of 1.5 million — Iraq’s second largest — fell to ISIS in 2014. Now, a combination of Iraqi military forces, Iran-backed shiite militias, and Kurdish peshmerga ...

The United Nations said it has received credible reports that IS executed more than 250 people in the Mosul area. Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service and Rapid Response Division -- its two most elite ...

The battle, expected near the end of the year, threatens to be long and grueling. If IS fighters dig in against an assault, they have hundreds of thousands of residents in the city as potential human ...

MOSUL, Iraq – When fighting closed in on his neighbourhood in Mosul, father of three Nashwan’s brother warned him it was time to leave. Hours later, the family home was partially destroyed. “My ...

Key dates in the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, the country's second biggest city, from the Islamic State group (IS) jihadists who seized it in June 2014. - October 17, 2016: Iraqi forces launch ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

BARTELLA, Iraq -- In a significant escalation of the battle for Mosul, elite Iraqi special forces joined the fight Thursday, unleashing a predawn assault on an Islamic State-held town east of the ...

Abandoned shops with corrugated iron fronts riddled by bullet holes. And amid the garbage heaps and pools of fetid rainwater, a roadside bomb set to explode. Five years after the U.S.-led invasion and ...

At least five, or two-thirds of the jury, are needed to convict. NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO — The military judge in the war crimes trial of Navy Chief Eddie Gallagher... NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO — A Navy SEAL ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi military commanders should prevent militias with records of serious abuses from taking part in a planned offensive on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul, campaign group ...