"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A long-awaited operation to seize the key Iraqi city of Mosul after two years of ISIS control is imminent, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Sunday. “We have been battling ISIS for more ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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Mortars from ISIS-held territory in Mosul killed a child and wounded five others, according to Rudaw TV, which ran footage of their evacuation by Iraqi troops. Away from the front lines ...