Mosul is made up of a diverse group of people with different ethnic and religious backgrounds – including Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians, Kurds and Yazidis – and in the past, ...

Mosul is springing back to life. Of the 1 million civilians who fled the city, at least 327,000 have returned to their homes as of Oct. 12 -- 184,000 people to East Mosul and 143,000 to West Mosul ...

THE first ever bombshell footage of the infamous "Mosul orb" UFO captured by a US spy plane in Iraq has now been released.

On Oct. 17, 2016, about 18,000 Iraqi forces, 10,000 Kurdish forces known as peshmerga and a few thousand Iraqi federal police launched the massive operation to free Mosul from ISIS control. Iraqi ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For nearly 2½ miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City ...

U.S. Army Major General Joseph Martin, head of ground forces for the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, tells Newsweek of the complex offensive that Iraqi forces are facing.

The assault on Mosul has begun after months of planning and often tortuous negotiation about the make-up of the attack force. But how it will unfold depends on many variables: the cooperation of ...

Satellite image shows Mosul, Iraq, in June 2015. Experts believe fighting in Gaza could mirror that which took place between Iraqi government and U.S.-led coalition forces and ISIS fighters in a 9 ...

Additionally, Mosul is vulnerable, and ISIS thus needs to remain popular with the Sunni community it relies on. Traditional cafés are crowded with people, especially the elders.

That didn't happen in Mosul, in Mosul, so many Moslawis stayed. It was the second or third largest city by population before the beginning of the battle, between a million and two million inhabitants.

The Mosul brigade of the counter-terrorism force had been using one of the houses on the street as an armory and a makeshift prison. Officers and soldiers were billeted in other civilian houses.