Mosul - page 2

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi congratulated heavy defeat sustained by Daesh in Mosul and called for collective campaign to dry up the terrorist group's intellectual roots and its sources of funding.

EghtesadOnline: More than 100 Islamic State militants launched a counterattack in Mosul on Wednesday, killing 11 Federal Police and four civilians in clashes that were still underway, Iraqi security officials said.

EghtesadOnline: Islamic State militants have killed dozens of civilians attempting to flee Mosul in recent days, hanging several dead bodies from electricity poles as Iraqi forces fight to retake the city, witnesses said.

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi officials said on Monday government forces had taken complete control of eastern Mosul , 100 days after the start of their U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city.

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi special forces battled Islamic State militants on Monday in two key neighborhoods in the eastern half of Mosul , a senior commander said, advancing deeper after fully routing IS from the sprawling complex of the Mosul University, a major step in the massive operation to retake the city.

EghtesadOnline: Iraqi forces will resume their push against Islamic State inside Mosul in the coming days, a U.S. battlefield commander said, in a new phase of the two-month-old operation that will see American troops deployed closer to the front line in the city.

EghtesadOnline: Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday, as part of a plan to close in on their de facto capital Mosul , a Kurdish official said.