MOSUL, Iraq: A senior Iraqi general predicted a relatively easy victory for his forces in the upcoming battle for the Daesh (ISIS) haven of Tal Afar as up...
QARAQOSH, Iraq: In a town ravaged by the war against Daesh (ISIS), amid ransacked homes and shuttered shops, a flashing sign above the entrance to one...
BARTELA, Iraq: Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children Daesh (ISIS) militants left behind will live to pay the price for their...
SOUTH OF MOSUL: The killers made no attempt to hide the bodies of the 15 men they shot dead by the side of a road cutting across wheat fields in northern...
QAYYARAH, Iraq: The stench hits you long before you reach the morgue where the latest casualties of the war between Daesh (ISIS) militants and Iraqi forces...
QAYYARAH, Iraq: The babies cry with hunger but are so severely malnourished that doctors treating them at a hospital in Iraq would make their condition worse...
MOSUL, Iraq/WASHINGTON: U.S. and Iraqi officials believe the leader of Daesh (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has left operational commanders behind with...
SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq: The mouth of the tunnel is hardly visible on a muddy hillside overlooking Mosul, where fighting now rages between Iraqi forces and Daesh...
MOSUL, Iraq: The boy’s fear was palpable as Iraqi soldiers brought him blindfolded before an intelligence officer in a house on the northern edge of...
KHAZER, Iraq: Bushra Mohammad married two years ago in her hometown of Mosul and bore a child last spring but as far as the Iraqi state is concerned she is...
MOSUL, Iraq: The leaflet dropped from the skies over Mosul urged Daesh (ISIS) militants to give themselves up. “Who will look after your families if you are...
HASAN SHAM, Iraq: They wait for nightfall before attempting their escape across bombed-out bridges and front lines between Daesh (ISIS) militants and Iraqi...
MAKHMOUR, Iraq: Wearing a camouflage cap over her headscarf, Miaad al-Jubbouri cuts an unusual figure among the hundreds of men fighting to retake a village...
KHAZER, Iraq: In a camp near Mosul a picture of a 3-year-old girl, snatched from her mother’s breast by Daesh (ISIS) militants when they overran her Christian...
MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq: The United Nations issued a fresh warning Wednesday about the humanitarian situation in eastern Mosul where the U.S.-backed Iraqi army is...
GOGJALI: Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern...
QAYYARAH, Iraq: The school walls have a fresh coat of paint and classrooms are crammed, but it will take longer to undo the damage done to thousands of Iraqi...
ZUMAR, Iraq: From the house Abu Suhail occupies, you can see Iraq’s ethnic fault lines widening. Like many houses in this northern Iraqi town, the drab...
IRBIL, Iraq: It was barely more than a squiggle, but the mark of a single letter sprayed overnight on a wall in the heart of Daesh’s (ISIS) self-proclaimed...
TUZ KHURMATO, Iraq: In some places, the line dividing this town in northern Iraq takes the form of blast walls and barricades that bring its run-down streets...
UMM Al-DHIBAN, Iraq: They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have...
IRBIL, Iraq: Denied their own state in reality, Iraq’s Kurds have declared independence in cyberspace with a new domain name that has provoked the ire of a...
MAKHMOUR, Iraq: Joy and fear were what Umm Mahmoud felt when she saw the Iraqi flag for the first time since Daesh (ISIS) insurgents raised their black banner...
IRBIL, Iraq: They are trapped between two worlds – one they want to leave and the other to which they are denied entry. For three months, more than 500 men,...
MALA QARA, Iraq: Mohannad is a spy for Daesh. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the...