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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

The battle was long and bloody, punctuated by wrenching moments of human tragedy. Los Angeles Times staff photographer Carolyn Cole covered the exodus of Iraqis from in and around Mosul in the ...

Although the battle to retake Mosul is now over, this is not the end of suffering for residents who endured three years of ISIS control. Throughout the battle more than one million people were forced ...

The battle for Mosul began in earnest this past week as Iraqi forces began the long, hard fight to defeat ISIS there. It was 2014 when this historically important, industrial city of some 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...