Iraqi and Kurdish forces battle for Mosul Dam
Fierce fighting is raging around the Mosul Dam, Iraq’s largest, as Kurdish Peshmerga troops and Iraqi counter-terrorism forces try to recapture it from Islamic State fighters who seized it just over a...
View ArticleIraq Says Mosul Dam Recaptured, Militants Deny It
The Iraqi Army says security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have pushed Islamic State (IS) militants away from the strategically important Mosul dam, recapturing the country’s largest...
View ArticleIraqi and Kurdish forces recapture Mosul dam
Kurdish and Iraqi government forces have taken control of the Mosul dam from the Islamic State group, after days of fighting aided by multiple air strikes from US jets and drones. Barack Obama, the US...
View ArticleExiled Archbishop of Mosul: ‘I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam’
Exiled Archbishop of Mosul: ‘I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam’ By Dr. Susan Berry Posted 2014-08-19 20:24 GMT The exiled Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, is warning westerners about...
View ArticleTurkey Forfeits Territory to ISIS in Lieu of Mosul Hostages
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View ArticleHelicopters Drop Leaflets Over Mosul Urging Residents to Fight ISIS
Leaflet dropped over Mosul urging residents to fight ISIS.(AINA) — Helicopters dropped leaflets over Mosul yesterday, urging the population to stand against ISIS and support Iraqi security forces....
View ArticleIraq’s Mosul Dam Remains Volatile and Unstable
Kurdish peshmerga soldiers guard the power station at the Mosul dam on Thursday (photo: Shashank Bengali/Los Angeles Times).For more than a week, Nawar and Tayseer Adnan remained in their family home,...
View ArticleISIS Loots Assyrian Homes, Vandalizes Churches in Mosul
ISIS Loots Assyrian Homes, Vandalizes Churches in Mosul Posted 2014-08-22 19:45 GMT Mosul (AINA) — ISIS began looting Assyrian homes in Mosul yesterday in the neighborhoods of Jamiaa, Muhandiseen,...
View ArticleAssyrian Woman Returns to Mosul, is Expelled Again By ISIS
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mosul (AINA) — An Assyrian woman and her elderly mother who fled from Mosul on July 19, ahead of the ISIS deadline for Assyrian Christians to convert or die (AINA...
View ArticleMosul Residents Fed Up With IS
The killings and kidnappings of Yezidis by the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) are affecting the situation in Mosul, where the militants have become far less visible and where villagers have stepped in to...
View ArticleWorsening Conditions in Mosul
The Wall Street Journal has written a report based on six interviews with Mosul residents describing life in the city under the rule of the so called “Islamic State”.In the report, citizens describe a...
View ArticleNoticeable withdrawal of Islamic State from Mosul , local residents say
Thursday, 04 September, 2014 Mosul/ NINA/ Local residents in Mosul confirmed that elements of the Islamic State (IS) began withdrawing extensively from Mosul on Thurs, 4. Sep. A number of local...
View ArticleIraqi Army, Kurds Advance Toward Mosul
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Iraqi military and Kurdish forces have kicked off an all-out campaign to recapture militant-held towns in the region of al-Khazer in Nineveh plains. Assyrian...
View ArticleKurdish Forces on the Move Towards Mosul
Kurdish Forces on the Move Towards Mosul Posted 2014-09-17 19:20 GMT Kurdish forces are on the move to Mosul, pushing Islamic State forces out of the Irbil region.LOS ANGELES — The Islamic State had...
View ArticlePhotos of Iraq’s Mosul Then and Now
A 1932 image of Lady Surrma of the Assyrian community posing for a portrait in Mosul, northern Iraq, from the Library of Congress, left, and an Iraqi woman looking at a shop display in central Mosul...
View ArticleIraq Kurds Advance But Mosul Still Out of Reach
Arbil (AFP) — Western support has helped Iraq’s Kurdish troops regain ground and momentum against the Islamic State group, but retaking the northern jihadist hub of Mosul remains too big an ask for...
View ArticleIraqi Politicians Plot Raising a Militia to Take Back Mosul
Masked Sunni gunmen chant slogans during a protest against Iraq’s government in Fallujah on January 7 (Reuters).Iraqi leaders driven into exile by ISIL plan to raise a militia to recapture their city...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdish Forces Moving Toward Complex Battle in Mosul
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter prays at a battlefield in a northern Iraqi village after Kurdish forces seized it from Islamic State militants (Hadi Mizban/AP).Three days after U.S. airstrikes in Iraq...
View ArticleMosul Residents Living in Sadness and Terror Under ISIS
[unable to retrieve full-text content](AINA) — Reporting via telephone, residents of Mosul describe a life of terror and sadness, living under strict Sharia law as imposed by ISIS. A general silence...
View ArticleU.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets Inside Mosul
U.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets Inside Mosul U.S. aircraft struck Islamic State targets Wednesday inside Mosul, the heart of militant operations in Iraq and the country’s second most populous city,...
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