Oil flowed officially last week out of the Mosul province of Irak, out of a 35-year welter of some of the world's most intricate connivance and double-cross. It was 1900 when a Briton ...

Iraqi forces remain on the doorstep of ISIS-held Mosul, encountering snipers, landmines and road-blocking boulders as they edged closer to the key city.

Iraqi forces fight back against ISIS in Mosul 02:38. MOSUL, Iraq --Iraqi troops backed by the U.S. military are tightening the noose around the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in the city of Mosul ...

WASHINGTON — U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have secured the eastern half of Mosul in a battlefield victory that has tightened the noose around the Islamic State and made it difficult for militants to ...

Iraqi troops pushed to the edge of Mosul’s historic Old City on Tuesday, as the battle for Islamic State’s other major urban stronghold kicked off in neighboring Syria.

A long-awaited operation to seize the key Iraqi city of Mosul after two years of ISIS control is imminent, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Sunday.

Insurgents take Mosul as Iraqi army collapses 02:11. BAGHDAD -- Islamic militants overran parts of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, driving security forces from their posts and ...

Iraqi forces on Thursday regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village south of Mosul, from Islamic State militants who had seized it as their defense of their stronghold in the city crumbled ...

More than 25,000 forces, including the Iraqi army, the peshmerga, Sunni tribal fighters and Shiite militias are taking part in the Mosul offensive, which began Monday after months of preparation.

Iraqi troops stormed into the Islamic State-bastion of Mosul on Thursday for the first time in two years, facing an extremist group whose leader urged militant fighters to confront their enemy ...

BARTELLA, Iraq—Iraqi security forces began a dramatic shift in tactics Thursday in their stalled offensive to retake Mosul, Islamic State’s last major stronghold, advancing on new fronts and ...

ASQUF, Iraq — A force comprising thousands of Kurdish and Iraqi army soldiers wrested territory from the Islamic State outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, facing occasionally fierce ...