Islamic State has removed 550 families from villages around Mosul and stationed at positions in the city. Possibly the terrorists want to use those civilians as human shields when the Iraqi army reached the city.
Armed extremists on Friday attacked government buildings in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the BBC reports. Suicide bombers blew themselves up at police stations in the city and a power plant. Iraqi security forces have repulsed the attack.
Iraqi forces snatch ever further towards the northern Iraqi IS stronghold Mosul. Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been freed fifteen villages around Mosul Islamic State. The city is since Monday the focus of an offensive against IS, because it is the last bastion of IS in Iraq.
Netherlands draws a million for mine clearance in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The city is now in the hands of Islamic State, but is surrounded by Iraqi and Kurdish forces. They expect fierce resistance from IS, and after a possible withdrawal of the extremists on countless booby traps and mines.
The offensive against Islamic State in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul faster than planned. That Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Thursday informed via a video link.
About five thousand people, mainly women and children, in recent days have fled the Iraqi city of Mosul and pulled into a crowded Syrian refugee camp. Another thousand others are on the way and stand on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
snatch Iraqi troops towards the city of Mosul, the city that has long been occupied for two years by IS. Although the terrorist group is trying to paint a picture of a normal town with residents who are at work, children go to school and live a happy life, that image is at best questionable said.
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.
The Syrian army on Tuesday to give the United States accused fighters of the Islamic State an opportunity to get out of the besieged city of Mosul to Syria. Syria says to make every effort to avoid.
France invests Thursday with Iraq a summit in Paris to discuss the future of the Iraqi city of Mosul as Islamic State is expelled there. That said, the French Foreign Minister Ayrault Tuesday.
In the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul is absolutely nothing to criticize the troops advance of a coalition led by the Iraqi army. Claiming IS through a video that was brought through Amaq, the communication channel of the terror army. The video was made Monday in Mosul.
Hundreds of Iraqis have protested Tuesday at the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad against the presence of Turkish troops on Iraqi territory. The demonstration had inter alia called by the Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The Iraqi army and its allies have in the first day of the attack on the IS stronghold Mosul made significant gains. A US military spokesman told CNN that the coalition hundreds of square kilometers area has captured the Sunni terror group.
Threatens a flood to come to terrorists into Europe at the end of Islamic State as a country. This scenario begins to date now an international coalition has used the attack on Mosul.
France Thursday organized a slotted meeting at which the offensive against Mosul topic of conversation.
A brigade of the Iraqi army, the terror group Islamic State (IS) Monday delivered a sharp blow to the advance towards Mosul. An army spokesman told CNN that IS has suffered heavy losses to fighters and equipment.
Turkey is ready to absorb the tens of thousands of people who will be expected to flee from the Iraqi city of Mosul. That said, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus Monday.
Iraq put 54,000 soldiers in the recapture of the northern city of Mosul on the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). That US Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told CNN said. He is commander of the international coalition against IS in Iraq and Syria.
A suicide attack on Monday at least ten people were killed at a checkpoint of the Iraqi security forces south of Baghdad. Another 25 others were injured, said sources in the police and the emergency services.
Kurdish fighters have east of the Iraqi city of Mosul a number of villages recaptured terrorist organization Islamic State. A spokesman for the peshmerga said that the Kurds will advance further towards the second city of Iraq.
Approximately 1.5 million inhabitants of Mosul are in great danger, now the Iraqi army and its allies have launched an attack in the northern Iraqi city. The UN refugee agency UNHCR expects about one million people will try to flee the city.
The military operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul on terror organization Islamic State (IS) started in the night from Sunday to Monday. That Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on national television.
Iraq is a major military operation launched to recapture the city of Mosul on terror organization Islamic State. That report Turkish and Iraqi media.
Turkey says Iraq needs help to dislodge Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul. The presence of Turkish soldiers in a military camp near the city, about 100 kilometers from the Turkish border, is required to prevent an attack against Turkey.
Islamic State, a group of 58 conspirators executed that would have been planning the city of Mosul in northern Iraq play into the hands of Iraqi government forces. That, residents and employees of Iraqi security forces said.
Military units trained by Turkey in Bashiqa in northern Iraq, will help in the attack on Mosul. This was announced by the Turkish state news agency Anadolu Friday. The operation aims to expel Islamic State from the major Iraqi city.
When the Iraqi army bet attack to oust IS Mosul, a stream of refugees will 'of biblical proportions' get going. Aid agencies are prepared though hardly there. That warning from Refugee Foundation. In camps around the IS main stronghold in Iraq is currently according to the organization accommodate about 100,000 refugees. In Mosul is home to about 1.2 million people.
Iraq gets to the United Nations Security Council to enforce the withdrawal of Turkish troops from the north of the country. Iraq's ambassador to the UN asked for a meeting to ask questions and there to make a final resolution 'violations and interference by Turkish side' to.
At least twenty Sunnis are Wednesday mistakenly slain during an air raid in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The crew of the plane that carried out the attack, saw the 'group of Sunni fighters 'to terrorists of the Islamic State.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq would be poisoned by eating deliberately contaminated food. Al-Baghdadi would be in bad shape.
