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An Iraqi displaced woman cries while fleeing her home, as Iraqi Forces battle with ISIS militants in western Mosul, Iraq, March 8, 2017, Reuters/Zohra Bensemra

Baghdad Expects Liberating Mosul Within a Month

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 10, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul – As the battle to liberate Mosul continued on Thursday, head of Iraq’s counterterrorism service CTS, Lieutenant General Talib Shaghati said that Iraqi forces are persistent to oust ISIS militants from the entire city of Mosul within a month, despite...

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An Iraqi Special Forces soldier searches for ISIS jihadists in Mosul, Iraq on Feb. 27, 2017/ Reuters Goran Tomasevic

Foreign ISIS Militants Flee Mosul

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 8, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul- Amid signs of ISIS’ retreat in west Mosul, U.S. and Kurdish sources confirmed that hundreds of the organization’s foreign fighters have already fled the city in the direction of Syria. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces announced liberating the government complex in the...

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Smoke rises from a car bomb that exploded during a battle with Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

Iraqi Forces Capture Mosul Bridge, Close in on State Buildings

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 7, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul – Iraqi forces captured the second of Mosul’s five bridges on Monday, giving a boost to their onslaught on ISIS remaining stronghold in the western part of the city. All of Mosul’s five bridges have been destroyed but the capture of the...

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An Iraqi special forces soldier fires at a drone operated by ISIS militants in Mosul. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Mosul Battles Turn into ‘War of Alleyways’

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 6, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul- Iraqi forces reached on Sunday the outskirts of Mosul’s old city center after pushing into some neighborhoods in West Mosul, which turned their battle with the ISIS terrorist organization into a “war of alleyways.” On Sunday, Iraqi security forces fought ISIS...

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Kurdish Rivals Clash in Sinjar, Iraq

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 4, 2017 | Middle East

Mosul – Clashes between Peshmerga forces and the Sinjar Protection Units erupted near Sinjar, a town in Iraqi Kurdistan, local Kurdish sources reported. Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani, belonging to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), is known...