Isis Mosul

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  Schoolgirls In Iraq's War-Torn Mosul Aim To Catch Up On Lost Years

  Despite having fallen three years behind their peers elsewhere in Iraq, it's been mostly smiles all around for the girls at Mosul's Trablus school since it reopened its damaged gates after the jihadists fled

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  Facing Defeat In Mosul, ISIS Members Throw Themselves In River Tigris

  ISIS terrorists threw themselves into the River Tigris on Sunday, trying to flee the battlefield in Mosul as they faced imminent defeat by Iraqi forces fighting to dislodge them from their last pocket in the city.

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  Mosul Victory In 'Days' As Pressure On ISIS Mounts

  Iraq will declare victory over the ISIS in Mosul during the "next few days," a senior commander said Friday, as pressure also mounts on the terrorist in Syria. ISIS, which declared a cross-border "caliphate" encompassing swathes of Iraq and Syria three years ago, is now facing twin offensives in Mosul and Raqa, its two most emblematic strongholds.

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  In Iraq's Mosul, Ghostly Civilians Emerge From Old City Hell

  They all say they are back from "hell". Quivering and emaciated, the civilians emerging from Mosul's Old City have survived famine but often lost relatives and sometimes their sanity.

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  ISIS Blows Up Iraq Mosque Where Its Chief Baghdadi Became 'Caliph'

  For more than 800 years, the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri has punctuated the skyline of Mosul, calling worshipers to prayer.

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  Iraq: The Battle For Mosul

  Key dates in the Iraqi offensive to recapture Mosul, the country's second biggest city, from the ISIS group terrorists who seized it in June 2014.

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  Tired, Traumatised Mosul Mothers Unable To Breastfeed

  Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself nor buy in a camp near the Iraqi battleground city of Mosul.

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  Iraq Presses Mosul Assault, UN Warns Of Danger To Civilians

  Iraqi forces pressed forward with an offensive against terrorist-held areas of Mosul as the United Nations warned of grave danger to civilians in the final stages of the battle.

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  Without School, Children Of Mosul Feared Lost To Poverty And Conflict

  Ahmed Abdelsattar was 14 when ISIS swept into Mosul and declared a "caliphate" in 2014. Fearing he would be indoctrinated and sent to fight by the terrorists, his parents took him out of school. Three years later, he sells ice cream at a refugee camp for internally displaced Iraqis.

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  In Iraq's Mosul, School Used By ISIS Becomes A Field Hospital

  Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before terrorists seized Iraq's second city.

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  Iraq Forces Push Into Old Mosul As Thousands Trapped

  Iraqi forces battled ISIS on Monday to push into Mosul's Old City where thousands of civilians remain trapped under terrorist rule.

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  Iraqi Forces Near Mosul Mosque Where ISIS Declared 'Caliphate'

  Elite Iraqi forces battled house by house in the Old City of Mosul on Saturday, inching towards the mosque where the ISIS proclaimed its 'caliphate' in 2014, a spokesman said.

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  Iraq Forces Retake Mosul Train Station

  Iraqi forces said Tuesday they recaptured Mosul train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from jihadists.

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  ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'Flees Mosul' As Iraqi Forces Advance

  ISIS group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reported to have abandoned Mosul, leaving local commanders behind to lead the battle against Iraqi forces advancing in the city.

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  Last Letters: From Mosul Schoolboys To ISIS 'Martyrs'

  "My dear family, please forgive me," reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an ISIS training compound in eastern Mosul.