Mosul (Reuters) Perched in bombed-out apartments overlooking west Mosul, Iraqi police snipers have in the last few days advanced to within a few hundred meters of the mosque where
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(Reuters) The northern Syrian city of Raqqa is expected to join a decentralized system of government being set up by Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies once it is
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi army said Monday it controls 50 percent of western Mosul as encounters heighten with Islamic State militants in the region. Army chief of staff, Lt.
Beirut/Amman (Reuters) A U.S.-backed Syrian alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias on Sunday took a military airport in northern Syria held by Islamic State, close to
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is likely to be hiding at al-Jazeera area, close to the Syrian borders, said We are Coming Nineveh Commander
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A prominent booby trapping expert with the Islamic State has been killed along with four of his assistants in Tal Afar district, a strategic IS stronghold
Mosul (Reuters) Iraqi government forces paused in their push to recapture western Mosul from Islamic State militants on Saturday because of the high rate of civilian casualties, a security
Nineveh (Reuters) Iraqi forces are to deploy new tactics in a fresh push against Islamic State in Mosul, military officials said on Friday, after advances slowed recently in the
(Reuters) U.S.-backed Syrian militias are expected to attack soon an Islamic State-held dam and air base west of the Syrian city of Raqqa, their spokesman said on
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Airstrikes by Iraqi army jets killed three senior Islamic State leaders in western Anbar, according to a source within the Joint Operations Command. The strikes targeted