Airport, which has not been operational since the group seized Mosul in 2014, will have a main terminal and VIP lounge.

Insurgents take Mosul as Iraqi army collapses 02:11. BAGHDAD -- Islamic militants overran parts of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, driving security forces from their posts and ...

The Fall of Mosul. A strategic disaster assisted by Obama's withdrawal from Iraq. Share. Resize. So much for al Qaeda being on a path to defeat, as President Obama used to be fond of boasting.

The battle for Mosul is a ferocious struggle that has now been going on for 256 days, or two months longer than the battle of Stalingrad. The fighting between Iraqi government forces and Isis is ...

How ISIS Survives the Fall of Mosul. Long after the city is back in the hands of the Iraqi government, it will continue to be a prop for the Islamic State—although an altogether different one.

Throughout the fall of 2016, Russian generals with whom I was negotiating in Switzerland on the fate of Aleppo would anxiously inquire about our plans for Mosul and Raqqa.

In 2014, three years after the U.S. military withdrew from Iraq, Mosul fell to a new enemy. The city’s fall to ISIS in 2014 raised questions for Mosul veterans that persist today: ...

The fall of Mosul could mean anywhere between 1 to 1.5 million more displaced people, a figure one aid worker bluntly calls “overwhelming.” ...

The northern Iraqi city of Mosul sits near the battlefield where Alexander the Great secured the decisive victory at Gaugamela that would lead to the fall of the Persian Achaemenid Empire over ...

BAGHDAD — A year after the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State, the extremists are cementing a totalitarian regime where life is orderly and the streets are clean, but the vast majority of ...

Although there is much hard fighting to be done in Iraq, the fall of Mosul will effectively spell the end of the Islamic State’s eastern province. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria will then ...