By bna Cairo bureau Iraq's High Committee for Reconstruction and Investment has approved several new investment projects ...

Join Joe Hattab as he explores Mosul, Iraq, discovering its rich history, resilient culture, and delicious street food like ...

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 ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group ...

Mosul was also the bureaucratic and financial backbone of IS. In the early days of IS growth in Iraq and Syria, former Saddam-era military officers from Mosul made up some of the group's highest ...

It captured Mosul in June 2014, butchered thousands of people and prompted an exodus from Iraq’s second largest city. Harrowing accounts of suffering and survival surfaced in the ensuing months.

Iraq declared victory against ISIS forces in Mosul after a grueling monthslong campaign. The battle to reclaim Mosul, the last major ISIS stronghold in Iraq, has been underway since fall 2016.

Key to any success in reclaiming the city is ensuring the safety of up to 1.2 million civilians, the largest population of any urban battle so far in Iraq’s war against Islamic State.

When Islamic State fighters swept through Iraq and Syria, their biggest prize was Mosul, a city of 1.2 million that is Iraq's second-biggest. In weeks, the fight to retake it will likely commence.

Iraq's military has also suffered high casualty rates. The government does not disclose official death tolls, but many of the units leading assaults in Mosul faced attrition rates of upward of 25 ...

The Iraqi forces moving on Mosul will include at least 10 Iraqi Army brigades and two Kurdish Peshmerga brigades, all trained by the U.S. led coalition in Iraq.

ISIS in Mosul 1 Year Later An inside look at the lives of those who fled and those who remained in the Iraqi city of Mosul. -- On the night of June 9, 2014, ISIS invaded the city of Mosul in Iraq.