THE LATEST IRAQ NEWS FROM MAILONLINE

At least 50 people dead and 80 injured in twin gun and bomb attacks on restaurant and police checkpoint in southern Iraq

15/09/17 03:17

14/09/17 03:06

Most are from Turkey, while many others are from former Soviet states, such as Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Russia, according to Iraqi army and intelligence officers.

07/09/17 13:07

While the fighters continue to lose ground in cities such as Mosul and Raqqa, once strongholds for the group, a clip has emerged showing an old man grooming impressionable boys.

06/09/17 18:31

ISIS followers could be targeting British and U.S. shops after the terror group perfected their methods of poisoning food using prisoners in Mosul, Iraq, as 'human guinea pigs'.

06/09/17 00:39

Charges were laid against the 16-year-old Linda Wenzel and three other German women captured in the ISIS stronghold of Mosul in July on Monday this week.

05/09/17 08:51

An Australian mother has disappeared after travelling to war-torn Iraq to recover her two kidnapped children.

01/09/17 20:46

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who commands the coalition forces fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, said there's 'lack of evidence' of al-Baghdadi's death as well as intelligence he's alive.

01/09/17 09:12

Sir Michael Fallon said the deployment of 44 troops to Anbar Province in a non-combat role would support the coalition effort as it enters its final phase (pictured: Iraqi forces advancing on al-Ayadieh).

31/08/17 19:20

British Brimstone missiles were blasted at the vehicle shattering it into a thousand pieces and killing the extremists inside.

31/08/17 18:49

In a statement, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said: 'Our happiness is complete, victory has arrived and the province of Nineveh is now entirely in the hands of our forces.'

31/08/17 13:58

Tempy Pattinson, 5, from Darlington, County Durham, and Simon Brown, 38, from Leeds, were introduced by Help for Heroes after she began fundraising to 'give back' to soldiers.

30/08/17 21:01

Footage from the front-line in Iraq could show ISIS militants surrendering to the country's armed forces following days of intense fighting in what could be the partly liberated town of al-Ayadieh.

30/08/17 12:47

The clip features young fundraiser Temperance Pattinson, from Darlington, Co Durham, telling Simon Brown, 38, why she decided to raise hundreds of pounds through her triathlon.

28/08/17 18:14

The clip, thought to have been shot near Mosul, shows brutal gun battles near a settlement of buildings before an ISIS suicide vehicle appears which is fired at by Iraqi forces.

25/08/17 19:00

Instagram snaps show the mega-rich in Iraq showing off their flash cars and designer gear. One star documents her luxurious lifestyle, which includes endless shopping trips and lavish meals.

23/08/17 18:32

If secured, the route would be the biggest prize yet for Iran in its involvement in Syria's six-year-old civil war and would provide unhindered land access to its allies in Syria and Lebanon for the first time.

23/08/17 18:32

For more than three years they lived under the brutal ISIS 'caliphate' in Mosul, and the faces of civilians caught up in the war-torn city show the horrors they have endured.

21/08/17 00:35

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadihas has announced that an operation has began to retake the the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, from the Islamic State group.

19/08/17 16:47

Ben Wallace said Europe is under 'constant attack' from terror groups and the UK is under increased threat because jihadis are unable to join ISIS overseas (Barcelona attack pictured).

19/08/17 00:26

In a letter, Sir Michael Fallon apologised for delays in bringing in alternative protected vehicles 'which could have saved lives'.

18/08/17 17:57

EXCLUSIVE: Mr Blair agreed to sit for a sculptor in 2012 so that his likeness could be added to the display of former Prime Ministers, but the commission has still not happened.

17/08/17 14:49

Three ISIS fighters were killed and five hurt as a bomb-laded donkey detonated prematurely near Kirkuk in Iraq. It is thought the new tactic was deployed as a way of avoiding US-led airstrikes.

16/08/17 10:28

The medic, of Sudanese origin, was promoted to the new position southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, making her the first woman to hold such a role within the terrorists' so-called caliphate.

15/08/17 09:05

Sgt. Roshain Euvince Brooks, 30, and Spc. Allen Levi Stigler Jr, 22, have been confirmed as the two soldeirs who were killed in Iraq during an artillery 'mishap' that injured five others.

15/08/17 06:33

Two American soldiers have been killed while conducting combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday. Five others were wounded.

11/08/17 04:45

Colonel Tim Collins, known for his rousing eve-of-battle speech to troops in the Gulf in 2003, set up New Century Consulting to offer specialist military and police training worldwide.

09/08/17 16:46

The images, which date back to the early 1900s all the way through to 1977, show Iraqis going about their day-to-day lives in times of peace.

08/08/17 00:36

Jihadi bride Linda Wenzel, 16, from Pulsnitz, Germany was filmed by an Iraqi soldier when she was dragged, filthy, dazed and wounded in her arm, from the former terror stronghold of Mosul.

07/08/17 15:58

Hannah Campbell, 33, from Northampton, suffered horrific injuries and suicidal thoughts following the 2007 mortar attack in Basra - but says she now sees her scars as a badge of honour.

06/08/17 23:47

An Iraqi woman who migrated to Australia said she had been married for two years before she went to see a gynaecologist - and when she did, her husband called her a 'b****'

06/08/17 16:48

Donald Trump's increased delegation to the military and a 'campaign of annihilation' that spares no militant has helped spur wins, a State Dept envoy said. Pictured: The reclaimed city of Mosul.

03/08/17 08:50

The list was found in a terrorist hideout in the shattered ruins of Mosul, Iraq, and includes names, photos and the country of origin of scores of fanatics.

02/08/17 14:14

Dr Jean Evans, the chief curator at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, where the object is on display, said the 'toy' was mislabelled and is in fact the head of a mace-like weapon.

31/07/17 22:27

General Abdul Wahed Shannan Al Rabbat alleged that Mr Blair, then UK prime minister, committed 'the crime of aggression' by invading Iraq in 2003.

31/07/17 21:14

General Najm al-Jabouri (pictured) said re-taking Tal Afar will be simple as the enemy's 2,000 fighters and their families are 'worn out and demoralised'.

30/07/17 20:45

MI5 said around 850 extremists left Britain to fight with ISIS, but there are fears up to 300 could return and use their terror training in the UK as the group continues to be pushed out of Syria.

27/07/17 23:13

After the liberation, the army officer and his comrades were told 'to kill anything or anyone that moved', which included Mosul's desperate citizens who have lived through the terror of ISIS' reign.

26/07/17 13:23

The warehouse was struck after intelligence officers identified the bomb factory near Hawijah in the Kirkuk province of Iraq. The RAF said that 'large quantities' of explosives were being stored by the jihadists.

24/07/17 13:04

Linda Wenzel was 15 when she vanished from Pulsnitz, Germany last year to fight for ISIS after being groomed online by a Chechen Jihadist she is reported to have later married.

24/07/17 11:02

Linda Wenzel surrendered to Iraqi forces last weekend after she was found screaming for help in a bombed out house in Mosul, a year after she vanished from Dresden, Germany.

23/07/17 15:01

Two caches of cobalt, a metallic substance with lethally high levels of radiation, was found inside two radiotherapy machines at the University of Mosul.

22/07/17 17:01

Linda Wenzel, 16, could face trial in Iraq it has emerged after she allegedly admitted killing people when she fled her home in Dresden to fight with ISIS in Mosul.

22/07/17 13:02

The Iraqi army is sharing photos of ISIS fighters trying to escape Mosul dressed as women, in full make-up, who have forgotten the key element of shaving off their beards and moustaches.

20/07/17 19:27

Linda Wenzel, the German schoolgirl who ran away to join ISIS was found alone, hurt and screaming for help in Iraq by a soldier who thought she was being held as a sex slave.

20/07/17 16:54

The effect of the battle for Mosul's Old City, which ended as jihadists made their last attempt to hold on to the region earlier this month, can be seen in stark before-and after satellite photographs.

20/07/17 11:11

Schoolgirl Linda Wenzel, 16, who was found with a female ISIS suicide squad in Mosul suffered 'torment' over her parents' marriage breakdown - and her mother moved in with a school caretaker.

19/07/17 23:07

With ISIS on the brink of being flushed out of Iraq and Syria, experts suggest re-emerge from the ashes under a new name once with a new wave of homegrown jihadis ready to wreak havoc in Europe.

19/07/17 16:00

Pictures show men huddled together on the floor in stifling conditions in a make-shift prison to the south of the war-ravaged city, recently liberated from the terror group.

18/07/17 23:57

Officials are spending £460,000 on helping to turn Saddam Hussein’s former Lakeside Palace in the Iraqi city of Basra into a museum. The aid cash is being used to pay for extra exhibition space.

18/07/17 18:14

The 'bill of sale', found in Mosul, Iraq, reveals how one woman, described as '20-years-old, physically fit with brown eyes', was given a price of $1,500 (£1,145).

17/07/17 15:09

Rabee Ebady, 48, scammed the Australian Department of Social Services $142,006 in disability, pension, Newstart allowance and rental welfare payments dating back to 2005.

14/07/17 07:12

After police liberated the neighbourhood of Hamam al-Qalil from the terror group, chiefs decide to parade their findings in Northern Iraq - ISIS's vehicles ready for suicide bombers to drive.

13/07/17 13:27

The clip, uploaded to Twitter on Wednesday, appears to show wounded fighters, one using a pair of crutches, walking away from a destroyed building in Mosul.

13/07/17 03:06

ISIS militants in the war-torn Iraqi city of Mosul, this week liberated from the terror group, ordered youngsters to carry out the punishment after threatening to kill their families.

12/07/17 23:28

Human rights group Amnesty International said pro-government troops broke international laws by failing to adapt and protect innocent citizens during the campaign to drive jihadists out.

12/07/17 13:25

Abu Haitham al-Obaidi, Islamic State deputy mayor in Hawija in northern Iraq, has 'declared himself the new caliph' amid reports of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death in a Russian airstrike.

11/07/17 19:12

Iraqi security forces continued to flush the last ISIS forces from Mosul's Old City on Tuesday a day after it was declared liberated. Half-naked fighters were paraded through the streets.

11/07/17 16:43

The terror group is said to have admitted that the 45-year-old was killed in an air strike in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.

11/07/17 11:54

President Donald Trump hailed the U.S.-backed coalition's retaking of Mosul from ISIS control in what he called a 'victory over terrorists who are the enemies of all civilized people.

11/07/17 07:30

Video has emerged of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi saying 'we have won' while dancing around with his troops in the northern city as news of ISIS atrocities continues to emerge.

10/07/17 19:33

Iraqi forces were on the verge of 'total victory' over Jihadists as they engaged in in fighting with ISIS on Monday as they battled to clear the last jihadist-held pockets in Mosul's Old City.

10/07/17 13:09

In the footage, the skeletal boy tells the camera crew: 'It hurts a lot. I cannot move.' It comes after the Iraqi government declared victory in their battle against ISIS in Mosul.

10/07/17 09:42

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A jihadist fighter shoots at an innocent group of civilians, mostly women and children, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

09/07/17 23:56

ISIS terrorists have been pounded with an airstrike which has hit their last remaining stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul which the jihadist group have ruled the city for the past three years.

09/07/17 12:45

Iraq’s second city will be liberated soon, a crushing blow to the hideous Islamic State. British and Kurdish sources say there are a final 100 or so Isis fighters still hiding in Mosul.

09/07/17 12:08

A photograph has emerged of a Mosul woman cradling her baby moments before she detonated a suicide bomb that targeted Iraqi soldiers.

08/07/17 23:06

Iraqi security forces are set to declare victory in Mosul within hours with local media reporting that Islamic State has been all but forced out of the city.

06/07/17 22:09

A spokesman for the former PM suggested the corporation's political editor Laura Kuenssberg had pushed Sir John into making the jibe.

06/07/17 15:03

Arts and crafts retail chain Hobby Lobby was fined $3million by the Department of Justice for illegally smuggling ancient cuneiform tablets and clay bullae out of Iraq.

06/07/17 01:20

ISIS extremists have been surrounded in a small enclave in the Old City area of Mosul in Iraq amid fears many of the buildings are still packed with civilians.

05/07/17 18:17

Mohammed Hassan hid under the lorry in Dunkirk, France and was crushed to death as the driver reversed while trying to make a delivery in Banbury, Oxfordshire.

04/07/17 13:05

Almost all the allegations of maltreatment brought against British troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned out to be baseless, writes COLONEL RICHARD KEMP.

03/07/17 16:31

Karar Nushi, who was studying at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad, was receiving death threats, according to his fans, because of his hairstyle and the outfits he chose to wear.

03/07/17 15:58

The two suicide bombers emerged from a basement near the ruins of the Mosul's al-Nuri Mosque before blowing themselves up, Iraq soldiers said.

03/07/17 14:50

Extremists forced the civilians into cages and doused them with oil before setting them alight in the city of Hawija in Kirkuk Province, northern Iraq.

03/07/17 14:11

Senior ISIS leader and preacher, Abu Qutaiba was burned to death in the group's stronghold town of Tal Afar, according to a source quoted on an independent Iraqi satellite TV network.

03/07/17 10:32

Iraqis who allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of US troops were told to instead blame it on British armed forces who were an 'easy target', it was claimed last night.

02/07/17 20:03

The troops were surrounded by about 50 ISIS militants yesterday close to Mosul in Northern Iraq as they had just withdrawn from an intelligence gathering mission.

02/07/17 12:20

The Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, where ISIS leader al-Baghdad proclaimed the new Islamic caliphate in 2014, now lies in ruins (pictured), after being blown up by the jihadists.

02/07/17 08:36

Iraqi TV has announced the 'fall of the mythical state' after special forces recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his only known public appearance.

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