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 ...

In a significant escalation of the battle for Mosul, elite Iraqi special forces joined the fight Thursday, unleashing a pre-dawn assault on an Islamic State-held town east of the besieged city, and ...

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister presided over the official reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul's Old City on Monday, eight years after the ...

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 ...

More than 50 civilians have been killed or injured by landmines since Friday night as they fled a village about 9 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's Federal Police said in a tweet Saturday. Residents in the ...