In ridding the city of the Islamic State, its health system was gutted, affecting 1.8-million residents

Mosul may no longer be a pillar of Iraq’s identity

There are fears that the extremists will commit more atrocities in an attempt to spread fear as they try to hold on to their last major Iraqi bastion.

Kurdish fighters backed by the US plan to retake Islamic State’s last major stronghold and are closing off escape routes.

In the city of Mosul, out of view of visiting Arab dignitaries next week, al-Qaeda still controls the streets and people still whisper about death.

Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul.

Nearly 1 000 Christian families have fled their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul following a wave of violence against them.

Kidnappers of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop found dead in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had demanded a -million ransom, a senior police official said on Friday. Paulos Faraj…

A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside an army recruitment centre in the northern Iraqi town of Rabia, near the Syrian border, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police…

Four car bombs exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, without causing any injuries, but two people were wounded by gunfire, the United States army and local…

Two separate car bombs killed six Iraqis and wounded 19 others in the northern city of Mosul, the United States military said on Monday. On Sunday, a car bomb detonated on a…

At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 26 wounded in a roadside bomb blast and fierce clashes on Wednesday between Iraqi police and insurgents in the main northern city of Mosul,…

A car bomb exploded outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 53 others, police said. The blast followed a…

The United States military has denied any knowledge of the discovery by Iraqi police of a second body in the Tigris River near the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi reports indicate…

The death toll in the twin suicide bombings at two Kurdish party offices in northern Iraq has climbed to 67, with 267 others injured, United States military officials said on…

Two Black Hawk helicopters have collided and crashed, killing 17 American soldiers in the United States military’s worst single loss of life since the Iraq war began. As the US…