US Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for talks with Iraqi leaders on the US-backed military campaign against Islamic State militants in Mosul,...
The Iraqi army has sent sent reinforcements to eastern Mosul after ISIL fighters launched a ferocious counterattack last week, pushing back government forces and further slowing...
About 20 percent of Mosul has been captured from Islamic State control, while the city’s east has been completely isolated, U.S. military officials said in its...