On June 10, 2014, the city of Mosul — Iraq’s second largest, home to nearly two million people, built on and around the ruins ...

ISIS fighters in Syria may have grown from 2,000 to 10,000 as the U.S. prepares to complete its Iraq withdrawal by Sept. 30, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Mosque of al-Nuri destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, stands after its reconstruction by UNESCO, with support ...

But the persecution of the Yazidis, including the buying and selling of women and girls, is a particular horror that has ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani inaugurated Mosul’s newly restored airport on Wednesday, marking a major milestone in the city's recovery more than 10 years after it was reduced to rubble ...

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In Mosul's Old City, the Housh al-Bai'ah complex, once a site of Christian heritage containing four churches, remains largely in ruins with only one church within the complex has been fully restored.

Mosul -- Mosul, ten years later. It was June 10, 2014 when the jihadist militiamen of the Islamic State (IS) managed for the first time to raise their black flags in the second Iraqi city, while ...

An Iraqi army truck pulls up to an abandoned gas station on the edge of Mosul in northern Iraq. Exhausted-looking men and boys climb out of the back — civilians evacuated from neighborhoods that Iraqi ...

Airstrikes, shelling and other heavy clashes shook a small sliver of western Mosul on Tuesday in renewed fighting, a day after the government declared victory over Islamic State militants in Iraq's ...

While details of the recent expulsion of the Christian community in Mosul have been well-documented and verified, the report that ISIS burned down an 1800-year-old ...