In Iraq, government forces have taken control of Kurdish-held areas in Mosul's Niveveh's province. A military statement said today that areas were evacuated by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters before the arrival of the Iraqi forces yesterday. 

BAGHDAD: Around 400,000 children are still displaced from the fighting for Mosul, one year after the start of a military offensive to recapture the Iraqi city from the Islamic State, Save the Children said on Monday. Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate effectively collapsed in July, when ...

In Iraq, government forces have started aerial bombing on Tal Afar town in west of Mosul which is still under Islamic State control.An Iraqi Defence Ministry spokesman said in Baghdad that the ground attack will start to take the city when the air campaign is over.

Iraqi forces say they are in the final stages in their operation to retake Mosul from ISIS.  "According to the Iraqi military, the fighting is still very intense," Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Erbil, said. The military said Iraqi anti-terror units are trying to take control of a ...

MOSUL: Iraqi forces announced on Tuesday they had retaken yet another neighbourhood of western Mosul, tightening the noose around jihadists holed up in the Old City. Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service "liberated the Northern Industrial Area on the western side," the Joint Operations ...

MOSUL: Iraqi forces launched a fresh push on the Islamic State group in Mosul on Thursday, opening a northern front in their battle for the west side of the city, officers said. Forces from the army, the interior ministry and the police "began breaching the western side from the north," the ...

MOSUL: Iraqi forces retook two more neighbourhoods in west Mosul Thursday, tightening the noose around jihadists holed up in the Old City, commanders said. "The forces completed the liberation of Al-Thawra neighbourhood," Sabah al-Noman, spokesman for the elite Counter-Terrorism Service, told ...

ARBIL: (APP) The Islamic State group shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul Thursday, as security forces announced they recaptured another neighbourhood in their nearly six-month-old offensive against the jihadist stronghold. The operation to retake west Mosul -- which the helicopter ...

In Iraq, about one hundred Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes by government forces outside Mosul today.According to an official statement in Baghdad, the strikes hit three Islamic State targets in Baaj, a remote northwestern town near the Syrian border.

ARBIL: (APP) Iraqi forces renewed their assault Monday against jihadists in Mosul's Old City, after days in which the battle was overshadowed by reports of heavy civilian casualties from air strikes. Iraqi forces began the massive operation to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) group ...