What Would the Fall of Mosul, Raqqa Mean for ISIS? As Islamic State's control over its strongholds in Iraq and Syria crumble, the extremist group acknowledges that soon not much may be left of its ...

Interestingly, there is one key throughline connecting the fall of Mosul (Iraq), Kabul (Afghanistan), and Damascus (Syria) — all three were held by conscript armies that were fed, equipped ...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- A suicide bomb was detonated near a coffee shop in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said. The U.S ...

For the children of Mosul, life took a darker turn when IS took over – as Hussein discovered one terrible day at school. On the last day of his short life, 10-year-old Sami* had something ...

A shooting in the northern city of Mosul left three people dead and at least 11 wounded Wednesday, a day after at least 10 Iraqis were killed by U.S. troops trying to stop an angry crowd from ...

UNESCO's initiative to revive the spirit of Mosul, whose emblematic worksites have just been completed, is yet another reminder of just how important this art form is for communities to recover after ...

Author Ben Mckelvey speaks with SBS Kurdish about his latest book 'Mosul: Australia's secret war inside the ISIS caliphate', which takes readers from the suburbs of western Sydney and Australia's ...