Mosul Offensive

Iraq's second city, and other areas retaken from Iraq, need more than a military strategy.

The mosque was used by the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to declare a caliphate in 2014.

The historic district is the last still under control of the militants.

The Islamic State militant group still retains control of the west of the city, where 200,000 people are trapped.

With less than 1,000 militants left to defend its shrinking pocket of control in Mosul, the Islamic State group faces total defeat by the Iraqi army and allies.

The Iraqi army has said it hopes to control the whole of the city by the end of May.

The Iraqi army's chief of staff said the Islamic State group (ISIS) only controlled 3.8 percent of Iraq.

Militants disguised themselves as Iraqi security forces to gain the trust of civilians and soldiers before executing them.

The U.S. approved $295.6 million in military assistance for Kurdish peshmerga units in Iraq as they prepare for a joint anti-ISIS offensive with allied Shiite Muslim militias.

Iraq's vice president said members of the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda were in talks after years of bitter rivalry among the formerly linked jihadist groups.

ISIS faces a near-total loss in Iraq and a formidable showdown with both U.S. and Russia-backed forces in Syria that could end with the jihadists' defeat in the Middle East.

The Islamic State militant group launched two poison gas attacks on Iraqi troops in two days as pro-government forces advanced against the jihadists in their final Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.

U.S. military advisers have begun dressing like their Iraqi counterterrorism allies in order to blend in and better coordinate with local forces fighting the Islamic State group in Mosul.

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump after he met with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, saying the U.S. was necessary for "rebuilding the country."

Aid agencies warned the most dangerous phase of the offensive was about to begin.

Iraqi PM Hiader al-Abadi said it would take three more months to rout ISIS.

The 3,330-year-old city was once a capital of the Assyrian empire.

The head of the anti-ISIS coalition said removing ISIS from Raqqa will take longer than Mosul.

Iraqi troops and their allies are trying to take back the city from ISIS.

Fighter jets have taken off from the Charles de Gaulle carrier in the Mediterranean Sea.