The UN Security Council was told there is evidence of 'heinous crimes' in territory once held by Isis.
Coalition is using night-time raids on the Iraqi city to destabilise Daesh's command structure.
Isis and al-Qaeda once enjoyed a relative peace before a power struggle and accusation of assassination attempts.
Here are the women who say gender does not keep them from fearing or entering the battle.
To increase the impact of coalition forces in Mosul, US Defence Secretary requests UK to send in 'military trainers'.
Hundreds of supports of the Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke through the Green Zone around Baghdad.
Protesters angry as MPs once again fail to show up for a key vote to end corruption.
Targets of terror attack thought to be Shi'ite pilgrims on their way to a holy shrine.
Rob Wainwright said many women now had hardened battlefield experience.
In the militants' latest attack on Christianity, they destroyed the church paid for by French emperor's wife.
The SAS and SBS are preparing to mount attacks with US, French and Iraqi troops and Kurdish forces.
The cash strapped extremists offer bonuses to fighters if they have children, wives and sex slaves.
Peshmurga forces say they have suffered 10 chemical attacks in the past six weeks.
Isis is losing territory in both Syria and Iraq with US-led airstrikes limiting oil production.
Officials announced that 200 additional troops will be deployed, acting mostly as advisors to Iraqi soldiers.
The jihadists release a new montage of killings said to have taken place in besieged Fallujah, Iraq.
The Abrams M-1 tank has been the unofficial 'hero of the day' according to the US military.
There have been more than 11,500 air strikes so far against IS in Syria and Iraq.
After serving as a mess hall for the British army, the Basra palace will become a museum in September.
Imams visited the front line of the fight against Islamic State in Iraq to arm themselves with information.
An Iraqi refugee has spoken about the horrors of life under the Isis Caliphate after escaping.
The hunting party were grabbed from an Iraqi desert camp at dawn in Samawah province.