The medical treatment of women and children, including a two-month-old baby, for exposure to chemical agents near Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul has prompted suspicion that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) may have used chemical weapons.
IRBIL, Iraq – The United Nations warned that the alleged use of chemical weapons in Mosul, if confirmed, would be a war crime and a serious violation of international humanitarian law, according to a statement released Saturday.
TEL AVIV – Archaeologists in Iraq made a surprising discovery when they unearthed a seventh century BCE palace in the ruins of the biblical prophet Jonah’s tomb, a site destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014.
The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed a chemical weapons attack targeting women and children in Mosul, Iraq, this week — likely an Islamic State operation intended to slow the liberation of its regional capital.
Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a recent “farewell speech,” admits defeat and tells his Iraqi fighters in the battlefield to “flee and hide” or “ blow themselves up when surrounded by Iraqi forces,” reports a local Iraqi news outlet.
The Islamic State organization has pressed on with its propaganda effort while fending off counteroffensives on Mosul and Raqqa, its capitals in Iraq and Syria, respectively.
Islamic State militants and supporters claim to be energized in their fight against the Iraqi counteroffensives in the IS stronghold of Mosul, according to messages contained in the organization’s internal communications and obtained by Breitbart Jerusalem.
Baghdad government-sanctioned paramilitary forces predominantly made up of Shiite militiamen backed by Iran have launched a new effort to recapture more Iraqi villages from the Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Friday that Iraq’s air force conducted its first strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria.
A group of Christians has erected a massive cross outside the city of Mosul on land recently liberated from domination by the Islamic State terror group.
Rampant corruption among Iraq’s security forces and law enforcement officials is making it possible for Islamic State jihadists to return to areas it once controlled as it loses territory in Mosul, reports the Washington Post (WaPo).
U.S service members participating in the ongoing offensive to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State “have come under fire,” Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, told Pentagon reporters.
WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. military on Wednesday said U.S. troops are “absolutely” in combat against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a departure from rhetoric used under the Obama administration.
BAGHDAD (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported.
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Iraqi forces launched an offensive on jihadists defending Mosul’s west bank Sunday, in what could be the most brutal fighting yet in a four-month-old operation on the city.
Retaking the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) will only push the jihadist group to other parts of the war-ravaged country, a Kurdish intelligence official predicted during an interview with Reuters.
The Islamic State organization has reportedly stepped up the use of drones in its campaigns in Iraq and Syria, claiming responsibility for at least 10 airborne attacks carried out last week alone. That number could not be immediately verified.
Contents: Iraq: Supporters of al-Sadr and al-Maliki turn again to violence in Baghdad; Iraq’s army poised to begin Battle of Mosul in the west
U.S.-backed Iraqi forces fighting to liberate the city of Mosul are waging psychological war on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), leaving militants’ corpses to rot in plain sight.
The UK Daily Mail relates a tale of Islamic State depravity from Russian news sources, in which a 10-year-old Iraqi girl living in occupied Mosul was tortured to death in front of her mother for the crime of going outside without an escort.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists not only destroyed but also dug tunnels underneath the shrine that is said to have housed the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, a key figure in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Senior ISIS leader Abu Abdullah was recently killed in a “work accident” when he was trying to rig a bomb on a roadside in southern Mosul and the device accidentally went off.
One of the Islamic State’s most prominent decapitators, allegedly responsible for beheading more than 100 people, has been stabbed to death in the outskirts of northern Iraq’s city of Mosul, reports Iraqi News, citing the Arabic-language al-Sumaria News.
In recaptured areas of Mosul, the extreme interpretation of Islam that jihadists forced on the local population for more than two years has sparked a backlash against religious observance.
Iraqi military officials uncovered a trove of over one hundred artifacts that experts have traced back to the Nimrud archaeological site at the former home of an Islamic State terrorist leader in eastern Mosul.
The U.S. military is alarmed that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq is using commercially available drones to drop small bombs with “pinpoint accuracy” in and around Mosul, the jihadist group’s last major stronghold in the country.
The Islamic State organization published a video of an alleged drone fleet, claiming to show their bombers in action over the city of Mosul, targeting Iraqi troops.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Tuesday that the battle to liberate the eastern half of Mosul, the Islamic State’s largest stronghold in the country, had successfully concluded.
Iraq has launched an investigation into alleged violations of human rights and other abuses against civilians purportedly committed by some of the country’s service members and their allies, including Iran-backed Shiite fighters.
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The Islamic State organization has continued its propaganda effort in a seeming attempt to send a message to it enemies that it is undeterred by the military campaign against it.
Huge oil fires lit by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) across northern Iraq as it fled U.S.-backed Iraqi forces last month are still raging, making locals ill and causing an environmental hazard.
The majority of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) commanders in Mosul, the terrorist group’s last major stronghold in Iraq, have been killed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and their allies, an Iraqi general tells Reuters.
Iraqi-led forces, backed by the United States military, have reportedly pushed the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of its strategic base in northern Iraq’s Mosul University complex.
The Pentagon has confirmed that among the weapons the Islamic State is using to slow the Iraqi Army’s progress in Mosul are small drones carrying grenade-like explosives, which have caused civilian, as well as military, casualties.
The top commander of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has lauded the Iran-allied Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a predominantly Shiite militia umbrella group that also includes individuals who have been deemed terrorists by the United States, for their contribution to the ongoing offensive to retake Sunni majority Mosul.
Various analysts have predicted that the U.S.-backed offensive to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) could carry on until around mid-2017, Rudaw has learned.
The declining effectiveness of Islamic State attacks against Iraqi forces in eastern Mosul suggests the militants are starting to run out of resources with the campaign in its third month, a U.S. general told Reuters.
The elusive leader of the Islamic State “caliphate,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is evidently still alive, despite rumors that his low profile for the past few months might have signaled his death or a serious injury.
