A senior Iraqi general predicted a relatively easy victory for his forces in the upcoming battle for the Daesh (ISIS) haven of Tal Afar as up 2,000 fighters and their families there are "worn out and demoralized." Less than one month after declaring victory in the city of Mosul, Iraqi forces...

Food access in Syria's battle-torn Raqqa is now at "a critical turning point," aid organisations said Monday, with markets shuttered and residents depending fully on their dwindling stockpiles. Raqqa has been gripped by fierce fighting for nearly two months and the U.S.-backed Syrian...

 Iraqi merchants and shoppers jostle in the lively open-air market of Gogjali on the eastern edges of Mosul, their voices often drowned out by the honking horns of cars. "Mosul will never be the same again," sighs Yunes Abdullah, a 60-year-old former soldier who set up a stall to repair...

Thousands of children have been separated from their parents in the nine-month battle for Mosul and the preceding years of Islamic State rule in northern Iraq - some found wandering alone and afraid among the rubble, others joining the refugee exodus from the pulverized city. In some cases...