Mosul offensive

Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.

Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’

August 24, 2017Conflict

ISIS militants are being squeezed out of their final strongholds in eastern Syria.

A view of part of western Mosul, Iraq, on May 29.

Were high civilian casualties in Mosul unavoidable?

July 13, 2017Conflict

Iraqi Federal Police celebrate in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq on July 8, 2017.

Iraq’s prime minister declares victory against ISIS in ‘liberated’ Mosul

July 9, 2017Conflict

One American family’s mission to rescue civilians in Mosul

June 21, 2017Conflict

ISIS bombs an ice cream shop in Baghdad

May 30, 2017Conflict

A woman walks along a damaged street in Aleppo, Syria February 2, 2017.

Do civilian deaths in Mosul and Aleppo deserve the same scrutiny?

March 30, 2017Conflict

The cities of Mosul, Iraq and Aleppo, Syria have both been devastated by war. And in both, civilians have suffered greatly as a result. But can the two conflicts really be equated?

Lina Shahab is recovering in a hospital in Erbil, northern Iraq, after surviving an airstrike in Mosul.

‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak

March 28, 2017Conflict

The Pentagon has confirmed that the ISIS-fighting coalition carried out a strike on March 17 in an area of western Mosul where residents say more than 100 civilians were killed. US officials say they’re investigating the incident.

Iraqi rapid response members fire a missile against ISIS militants in Mosul, Iraq, on March 11.

US says ISIS fighters are ‘trapped’ as Iraq retakes a third of western Mosul

March 12, 2017Conflict

A renewed push against ISIS in Iraq launched on March 5 has forced the radical militants from several neighborhoods and key sites, including the main local government headquarters and the famed Mosul museum.

Iraqi soldiers inspect the remains of the Tomb of Prophet Yunus, destroyed by Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq, January 28, 2017.

What’s the battle to retake Mosul like? This documentary takes you there.

January 31, 2017Media

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was born in Baghdad but used to visit Mosul with his family frequently. Today, Mosul is nothing like what Abdul-Ahad remembers.

Riyad al-Jaboury, an Iraqi English teacher, with his birds in his yard in Hamam al-Alil, northern Iraq.

ISIS forced this Iraqi teacher to change all his lessons — ‘it became all about death’

January 24, 2017Conflict

This Iraqi decided to become an English teacher while US troops were stationed in his town south of Mosul. When ISIS took over, they forced him — with death threats — to keep teaching, but to teach their version of facts.