The Islamic State captured Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from the Iraqi government after a seven-day battle in June 2014. The US-backed Iraqi assault to recapture Mosul began with great ...

In 1165, Benjamin of Tudela, a medieval Spanish Jewish traveler, approached the city of Mosul on the banks of the Tigris. A visitor, even a thousand years ago, could marvel at its antiquity ...

In 1165, Benjamin of Tudela, a medieval Spanish Jewish traveler, approached the city of Mosul on the banks of the Tigris. A visitor, even a thousand years ago, could marvel at its antiquity. "This ...

Judy Woodruff: It's been more than a year since Iraqi forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, recaptured the city of Mosul from ISIS. The militants had taken over Iraq's second largest city in 2014.

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS ...

But Mosul, he says, was the toughest battle he's experienced. Olivier Sarbil lost part of his right hand while covering the Libyan revolution. But Mosul, he says, was the ...

Some parts of west Mosul look almost normal, like any other city in Iraq. But the closer you get to the Old City, where ISIS still reins, the more complete the devastation. Take a 360-degree look ...

In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region.

The battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State is proceeding in fits and starts. Some 30,000 Western-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces are grinding their way toward Iraq’s second-largest city, with ...

"It will not be a big battle. It will be easy to free Mosul," Atheel Nujaifi, the governor of Nineveh province, told a Kurdish news outlet.

If the Battle of Mosul goes as expected, the Islamic State’s loss, while significant, also will be al Qaeda’s gain. Dr. Zawahiri (he was a physician before he was a revolutionary) ...

Some parts of west Mosul look almost normal, like any other city in Iraq. But the closer you get to the Old City, where ISIS still reins, the more complete the devastation. Take a 360-degree look ...