Iraq Isis Crisis

Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the ISIS group, the judiciary said on Monday.

On a pontoon bridge connecting East and West Mosul, residents of a city shattered by the battle to expel ISIS cross back and forth trying to rebuild their lives from the rubble.

Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children ISIS terrorists left behind will live to pay the price for their actions.

Iraqi forces clashed with ISIS terrorists holding out in Mosul's Old City today, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the terrorists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate.

ISIS has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city, an Iraqi army officer and residents said, deploying guerrilla-style tactics as its self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles.

Iraqi forces have recaptured a hospital and other medical facilities in west Mosul, further isolating ISIS group holdouts in the Old City, officers said.The country's security forces are in the final stages of the gruelling battle to retake second city Mosul, which they launched more than eight months ago.

Sheen Ibrahim's track record fighting ultra-hardline terrorists explains US President Donald Trump's policy of arming Syrian Kurds like her as he seeks to eradicate ISIS. It also highlights the risks.

The Iraqi military announced today that special forces had recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where terrorists chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance.

People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without ISIS in years today after the terrorists were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to recapture the remaining area would soon be over.

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.

Iraq's military said on Sunday that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that ISIS had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike.

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.

Iraqi forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from terrorists.

Iraqi forces will recapture east Mosul from the ISIS group within "a few days," a senior officer said on Monday.

A small white drone hummed into sight and Thaker, a member of Iraq's special forces, grabbed his machinegun and started lighting up the blue sky above eastern Mosul.

Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the ISIS group, the judiciary said on Monday.

On a pontoon bridge connecting East and West Mosul, residents of a city shattered by the battle to expel ISIS cross back and forth trying to rebuild their lives from the rubble.

Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children ISIS terrorists left behind will live to pay the price for their actions.

Iraqi forces clashed with ISIS terrorists holding out in Mosul's Old City today, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory over the terrorists in what they had made the de facto Iraqi capital of their self-declared caliphate.

ISIS has captured most of a village south of Mosul despite losing control of its stronghold in the city, an Iraqi army officer and residents said, deploying guerrilla-style tactics as its self-proclaimed caliphate crumbles.

Iraqi forces have recaptured a hospital and other medical facilities in west Mosul, further isolating ISIS group holdouts in the Old City, officers said.The country's security forces are in the final stages of the gruelling battle to retake second city Mosul, which they launched more than eight months ago.

Sheen Ibrahim's track record fighting ultra-hardline terrorists explains US President Donald Trump's policy of arming Syrian Kurds like her as he seeks to eradicate ISIS. It also highlights the risks.

The Iraqi military announced today that special forces had recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where terrorists chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance.

People in the Iraqi city of Mosul celebrated their first Muslim Eid holiday without ISIS in years today after the terrorists were ejected from much of the city, and hoped the battle to recapture the remaining area would soon be over.

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.

Iraq's military said on Sunday that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that ISIS had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike.

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.

Iraqi forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from terrorists.

Iraqi forces will recapture east Mosul from the ISIS group within "a few days," a senior officer said on Monday.

A small white drone hummed into sight and Thaker, a member of Iraq's special forces, grabbed his machinegun and started lighting up the blue sky above eastern Mosul.