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Iraqi commandos have captured the University of Mosul. The commander of the Iraqi armed forces, General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah, announced this Friday.

Barack Obama Chelsea Manning, who is serving a prison sentence of 35 years for leaking military secrets, put on the list of candidates for release. That said a representative of Justice against NBC News. A final decision can be taken about the short term.

A heavy explosion of a car bomb at a vegetable market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad Sunday killed at least twelve people died. Certainly fifty other visitors were injured.

Suicide bombers with firearms and have bomgordels Monday two police attacked in the Iraqi city of Samarra. According to the security services are therefore killed at least seven agents. Certainly two perpetrators blew up.

The reconstruction of Iraq can make an important contribution to preventing attacks in the West. That said, French President Francois Hollande on a visit to French troops stationed in the conflict-torn country.

At least ten people Monday to life come in an attack in Baghdad. Also touched according to police and medical sources at least 35 people injured when a car bomb exploded in a busy square in the Iraqi capital. The responsibility is still unclaimed.

Least 21 people were killed Saturday by two bombings in a crowded market in central Baghdad. According to doctors and police, there are at least forty wounded.

If want to reach the Iraqi government long-term peace in the country, they have plenty of bets IS after defeating terror group on reconstruction and reconciliation. Only by ensuring that the population stability, can be prevented from getting up new extremist groups.

At his Wednesday certainly many civilians died mistake bombing in Iraq. According to a local hospital and two county directors are surely slain 55 civilians, including twelve women and nineteen children.

The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved a controversial law that gives a separate legal status in the predominantly Shiite People's Mobilization Forces, apart from the official Iraqi army. All Shiite blocks voted in parliament. Members of the Sunni minority boycotted the vote because they see no benefit in additional security forces besides the army and police.

Definitely eighty people have been slain Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his truck at a gas station in the Iraqi city of Hilla, about one hundred kilometers south of Baghdad. Ten people were injured. Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

Islamic State is fully encircled west of Mosul. So say Shiite fighters involved in the recapture of the northern Iraqi city.

A Shiite group that fights on behalf of the Government of Iraq against Islamic State also puts children for that fight. That the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Sunday.

A convoy of the Iraqi Red Crescent for the first time since the start of the offensive in Mosul relief supplies delivered to the population in the besieged city. That sister organization let the Red Cross know.

By a suicide attack on a wedding party on Thursday in the Iraqi city of Fallujah least thirty people died. According to the security brought a terrorist with an explosive loaded car exploded.

The Iraqi army has this weekend in his own words taken the place Nimrud on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. The ouster of the extremist Islamic State (IS) is part of the attempt to recapture the city of Mosul. That city is located approximately 30 kilometers north.

The Iraqi army on Saturday after heavy fighting occupied two districts in the east of the city of Mosul. The special units had air support from the United States and their own air force.

Warriors Islamic State have with the crucifixion of five people a clear message to the Iraqi city of Mosul delivered to the 1.5 million people who are still trapped. The five would have passed information to the enemy. Although the terrorist movement is losing ground to the east of the city, the warriors make clear that they are still the boss.

The Iraqi army in a town south of Mosul discovered a mass grave with an estimated hundred decapitated corpses. The town of Hammam al-Alil Saturday was freed of the terrorists of the Islamic State.

The Iraqi army on Saturday again made gains at the expense of Islamic State. At about 15 kilometers south of Mosul was the town of Hammam al-Alil recaptured. That made the head of the Iraqi police announced.

In an audio message is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the spiritual leader of Islamic State (IS), the people and calling around the Iraqi city of Mosul Thursday to fight against the 'enemies of God.' He also asked to point to suicide terrorists destruction in the lands of the infidels.

Iraqi forces are Wednesday advanced to the outskirts of the town of Hammam al-Alil southwest of Mosul. Aid organizations and Iraqi regional officials say Islamic State (IS) has executed in Hammam al-Alil dozens of prisoners.

The Iraqi army has resumed its offensive east of Mosul Monday. The army focuses on the eastern bank of the Tigris, the river that runs through the northern town.

Iraqi Shiite militias on Saturday launched an attack on positions of the group Islamic State west of Mosul. In a statement announced the militias backed by Iran Tal Afar is one of the cities ' to be liberated. '

Since the beginning of the Iraqi-Kurdish offensive on Mosul, according to the Iraqi government, 12,000 people beaten in the flight. Mosul is in the hands of Islamic State. Last Monday began the Iraqi army and Kurdish units to march on the city.

Units of the Islamic State have taken Tuesday parts of the Iraqi city of Rutba. The attack on the remote western town was started two days ago. The action is intended to somewhat ease the military pressure on Mosul.

The summit meeting Tuesday in Paris is driven on the future of the Iraqi city of Mosul as Islamic State, will take place without representatives of Iraq and Turkey. Both countries do not participate in the talks between approximately ten defense ministers.

Iraq is drained. The parliament in Baghdad late Saturday voted for a ban on the import, production and sale of alcoholic beverages. Proponents of the ban consider the availability of alcohol as un-Islamic and contrary to the constitution of the country.

Ankara and Baghdad have reached an agreement in principle that could eventually lead to a Turkish role in the offensive towards Mosul. Said US Secretary Ashton Carter (Defence) after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Iraqi forces have liberated the district of al-Shura, an area southeast of Mosul. The terrorists of the Islamic State have been displaced. The area is about 45 kilometers from the famous ruins of the Assyrian city of Nineveh.