Abd al Razzak Ahmed, who was fleeing Mosul with his family on Thursday, said they were stuck inside their house for days at a time while ISIS fighters set up on their roof and blasted away at ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MOSUL, Iraq – As the noose tightens around the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, there is a flurry of activity in the city’s surrounding villages, where the black-clad jihadist ...

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 ...

People in Mosul call it “the Biter” or “Clipper” – a metal instrument newly introduced by Isis officials to punish women whose clothes they claim do not completely conceal their body.