In addition, ISIS militants are badly outnumbered by Iraqi forces. About 100,000 Iraqi security forces and Kurdish militia have been involved in the offensive into Mosul and surrounding ...

When Mosul fell into the hands of ISIS two years ago, it entered that same twilight zone where those outside can only find out what’s happening inside from those who flee, or through the ...

"Friends. Home. You know — my home. I was born there." ISIS has occupied Mosul for more than two years. Residents describe a regime of strict rules and savagely violent punishments for breaking ...

With roughly 600,000 residents remaining, Mosul is the largest population center under ISIS control, a key source of prestige and resources and a living advertisement for the group’s claim that ...

In West Mosul, 110 schools have reopened to welcome nearly 81,000 children. — -- Three years ago when Rauiya Saed was in the third grade, ISIS militants took over her neighborhood in West ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Residents of ISIS's former Iraqi stronghold of Mosul have warned that extremists were still living among civilians in parts of the city liberated by U.S.-backed troops.

The Iraqi Ministry of Transport revealed on Thursday that Mosul International Airport is now fully operational.

The offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS control has begun, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a televised statement early Monday. “Our dearest people in Nineveh province, the victory ...

Among them is a man we'll call the professor — he, his wife and their children fled Mosul in August. He doesn't want his name published because his extended family still lives there under ISIS ...

ISIS captured Mosul in 2014 and released a video the following year showing fighters smashing artifacts in the museum with sledgehammers and power tools. The voice narrating the ISIS video ...

Cultural heritage has become a cornerstone of Iraq's post-Saddam foreign policy. But that same heritage can be more divisive ...

"They've got ISIS in position where it's just a matter of time until we see the final collapse of the caliphate within west Mosul. They are completely surrounded." Martin declines to give an ...