The status quo is unlikely to change. Talk of an offensive to liberate Mosul is simply unrealistic. Neither the Iraqi military nor the Kurds seem inclined to shed a drop of blood for Mosul — a ...

We watched as caravans of hundreds of cars snaked along the main road that connects Mosul to the Kurdish controlled territory in the East where many of the camps for Internally Displaced People are.

One of the oldest traditions of Ramadan is waking people up with the sound of drums before the pre-dawn meal. Although this ...

The scars of ISIS still linger in Iraq, and the threat of extremism has not vanished. But hope has taken root in the ...

Kurdish artist/activist Adalet R ... A few years later I am fascinated when Adalet shares the news about the film he wrote, directed and produced, MOSUL, MY HOME, winner of the NETPAC Prize, given at ...

An elderly man has been standing for years on the streets near Mosul University, offering books for free to anyone who wants to borrow them. Many of those who take the books are students from the ...

The leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, Abu Khadija, has been killed in an operation carried out by ...

Kurdish forces taking part in the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants are besieging a key town to the north-east. Peshmerga fighters have surrounded Bashiqa ...

Given this degree of mobilisation by Islamic State, statements from Mr Abadi and CentCom about recapturing Mosul this spring, using between 20,000 and 25,000 Baghdad government and Kurdish forces ...

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