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Car bombs kill 8 in former IS stronghold in Baghdad ASIA

Car bombs kill 8 in former IS stronghold in Baghdad

Eight people were killed and nearly 20 wounded on Monday in two separate car bomb blasts that hit police checkpoints in Falluja, a former stronghold of Islamic State west of Baghdad, police sources said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Suicide attack south of Baghdad kills 8 ASIA

Suicide attack south of Baghdad kills 8

A suicide attack in an oasis town south of Baghdad killed eight people and wounded at least six on Monday, Iraqi officials said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq military says recaptures Nimrud, home to ancient site ASIA

Iraq military says recaptures Nimrud, home to ancient site

The Iraqi military said Sunday that soldiers south of Mosul have recaptured the Nimrud area, home to the site of an ancient Assyrian city that was blown up by the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS turns to tunnels in last stand for Iraqi town ASIA

IS turns to tunnels in last stand for Iraqi town

Iraqi Kurdish forces came under heavy fire from a salmon-coloured house on the edge of the Islamic State group-held town of Bashiqa, but when they stormed it, it was empty.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
'Caliphate' leaves Iraqis in administrative limbo ASIA

'Caliphate' leaves Iraqis in administrative limbo

Families fleeing Mosul as Iraqi forces move in are taking their ‘official’ documents with them but also wondering who will recognise the stamp of the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
IS abducts over 200 near Mosul, retreats with thousands ASIA

IS abducts over 200 near Mosul, retreats with thousands

Islamic State fighters have abducted 295 former Iraqi Security Forces members near Mosul and forced 1,500 families to retreat with them from the town of Hammam al Alil towards Mosul airport, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq forces retake key town on Mosul southern front ASIA

Iraq forces retake key town on Mosul southern front

Iraqi forces retook a key town from the Islamic State group Monday, a crucial objective on the southern front of the offensive to wrest back the city of Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq Peshmerga attack IS town as army battles in Mosul ASIA

Iraq Peshmerga attack IS town as army battles in Mosul

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacked an Islamic State-held town northeast of Mosul on Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the jihadists in its eastern neighbourhoods.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
US-backed forces launch assault on Syrian IS 'capital' ASIA

US-backed forces launch assault on Syrian IS 'capital'

US-backed Kurdish-Arab forces launched an offensive Sunday on the Islamic State group's de facto Syrian capital Raqa, upping pressure on the jihadists who are already battling Iraqi troops in Mosul.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
27 killed in Iraq suicide bombings claimed by IS ASIA

27 killed in Iraq suicide bombings claimed by IS

At least 27 people were killed on Sunday in a series of suicide bombings, including one where an ambulance was used, which were claimed by Islamic State in Iraq's northern province of Salah al-Din.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Suicide bombers strike in two Iraqi cities, killing 11 ASIA

Suicide bombers strike in two Iraqi cities, killing 11

A suicide attacker detonated an ambulance packed with explosives in Tikrit on Sunday, killing nine people at the southern entrance to the city, police and hospital sources said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Iraq forces enter IS-held Mosul ASIA

Iraq forces enter IS-held Mosul

Iraq announced on Tuesday that its forces had entered jihadist-held Mosul for the first time since the Islamic State group overran the city more than two years ago.

4:45 AM November 25 2016