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Iraqi Army forces detain 14 ISIS members .(AFP/ File Photo)

November 14th, 2018 - 02:03 GMT

Security Sweep in North Iraq Result in Arrest of 14 ISIS Militants

At least 14 members of the Daesh terrorist group were arrested in a security sweep carried out across Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, according to a statement released by the Iraqi army.

The view towards Mosul from a Peshmerga military base in Bashiqa (Al Bawaba/Adam Lucente)

October 18th, 2016 - 07:42 GMT

Daesh fears come true as civilians rebel in Mosul

Iraqi forces load artillery outside Mosul. (AFP/File)

October 18th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Mosul operation progresses as 12 surrounding villages liberated from Daesh

During a military operation launched by the Kurdish peshmerga forces near Mosul, Iraq's second city and the Islamic State group's de facto capital in the country, one Iraqi Kurdish reporter was killed and another wounded in August 2016. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

October 17th, 2016 - 01:00 GMT

Iraq: Kurdish Peshmerga forces liberate seven villages as Mosul operation begins

Iraqi forces gather at the Qayyarah military base, about 60 kilometres (35 miles) south of Mosul, on October 16, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

October 17th, 2016 - 05:46 GMT

Iraq’s battle against Daesh reaches turning point as operation to retake Mosul begins

Kurdish Peshmerga forces look at a checkpoint held by Daesh militants on June 16, 2014 in Iraq's second city of Mosul. (AFP Photo/Karim Sahib)

October 16th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

US military strikes Daesh in Iraqi Mosul

Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces drive their armored vehicles after they retook an area from Daesh on April 2, 2016 in the village of Al-Mamoura, near Hit, Anbar Province. (AFP/File)

October 15th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT

Daesh deals with internal coup attempts as Iraqi forces march on Mosul

Iraqi government forces drive in the al-Bakr neighbourhood north of Hit in Iraq's Anbar province after they cleared the area of Daesh fighters on October 10, 2016. (AFP/Moadh al-Dulaimi)

October 14th, 2016 - 05:00 GMT

‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’: Fragile coalition approaches Mosul

A fighter in the Ahl al-Haq militia (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)

October 12th, 2016 - 09:35 GMT

Iraqi Shia militia leader: ‘Mosul will be revenge for killing of Husain’

Kirkuk, Iraq's security has improved dramatically, but the KRG-controlled city is also claimed by the Baghdad government (Al Bawaba/Adam Lucente)

October 5th, 2016 - 01:09 GMT

Peshmerga commander near Kirkuk criticizes Shia militias, will they fight?

Iraqi security forces stand guard at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a market in the Baghdad Jadida neighborhood in the east of the capital on September 27, 2016. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

October 3rd, 2016 - 09:00 GMT

Violence in Iraq kills more than 1,000 in September alone

Displaced Iraqi families from Hawijah rest some 25 kilometres from the northern city of Kirkuk after fleeing their homes due to ongoing fighting between government forces and Islamic State (IS) group jihadists on September 27, 2016. (AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)

September 30th, 2016 - 02:00 GMT

UN estimates 700,000 Iraqis will need humanitarian aid once Mosul operation begins

An Iraqi man walks near smoke billowing from oil wells, set ablaze by Daesh militants before fleeing the oil-producing region of Qayyarah, on August 30, 2016. (AFP/File)

September 27th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Fears mount over Daesh threat to use mustard gas to defend Mosul