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Iraqi forces drive their vehicle past a mosque in Mosul’s Old City on July 9, 2017. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

ISIS Resort to Al-Ayadiya as their Last Refuge in Nineveh

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 29, 2017 | Middle East

Irbil- After being removed from Tal Afar, hundreds of Arab and foreign ISIS militants escaped to the town of al-Ayadiya in the north of Iraq, their last refuge in the Nineveh province, where Iraqi forces besieged them on Monday. “Hundreds of Arab and foreign ISIS...

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Reuters)

Report: ISIS Announces Baghdadi’s Death in Brief Statement

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2017 | Middle East

The ISIS terrorist group acknowledged on Tuesday the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi source in the Nineveh province told local media. The details of his death were not disclosed. He added that the group will “soon announce his successor.” The...

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Iraqi Christian families that have fled the violence in northern Iraq. (AFP)

Brussels Conference Addresses State of Iraq’s Christians Post-ISIS Phase

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 27, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad – A number of Christian Iraqi figures and forces will attend a European Union-sponsored conference in Belgium to address the situation of Christians in the northern Nineveh field after the elimination of the ISIS terrorists from the area. The two-day...

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Iraqi Forces Reach Nineveh Government Building in Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 13, 2017 | Middle East

Iraqi forces fighting the terror group ISIS in its last stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, have reached the Nineveh province governance building and raised the Iraqi flag there, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday. Reuters reported that Iraqi forces retook most...

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Iraqi soldiers take cover during clashes with ISIS militants in Mosul. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Three Neighborhoods Separate Iraqi Forces form Right Side of Mosul

by Dalshad Abdullah | Nov 14, 2016 | Middle East

Mosul-“We Are Coming, Nineveh” operations’ command leading Mosul’s liberation has announced that Iraqi anti-terror units have controlled Qadesiyya neighborhood on the left side of Mosul and killed scores of terrorists, while a Kurdish official has asserted...