Mosul

Execution of 58 plotters comes with Iraqi government operation to seize stronghold imminent.

IS (Daesh) is reported to have rigged five bridges with explosives in Mosul.

British military personnel are also engaging in the information battle to defeat the jihadists.

The battle to retake the city from Isis could begin within weeks.

Request follows claim Isis has deployed chemical weapons to Mosul in anticipation of attack.

Haider al-Abadi faces huge challenge winning back the faith of Iraq's Sunnis

Iraqi army units will push towards Mosul from the south while the Kurds wait in the wings

An assault on Mosul could take place 'in weeks', despite Daesh militants building heavy fortifications.

A shell, suspected of carrying mustard gas, landed at the Qayyara air base, south of Mosul on 20 September

The Iraqi army and associated forces are closing in on the city that fell to Isis in June 2014.

The battle for the Daesh-held city could begin as soon as October.

The group has made a U-turn on its burka stance following reports of a veiled woman targeting fighters.

The youths were reportedly executed in Tal Afar Square in Mosul after forming a resistance faction.

Human rights watch has said government-funded militias are recruiting children from refugee camps.

Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service worked with armed locals to drive Daesh out of Qayyarah.

Extremist Islamist group is quicker to kill deserters as tensions mount in the face of Iraqi advance.

Iraqis from Kirkuk, Fallujah and Mosul struggle as country fails to solve refugee crisis

Officers can be heard shouting instructions and asking each man their name in search of Isis supporters.

The move could help anti-Isis troops retake the de facto capital in Iraq from the militants.

Multiple reports from Mosul suggest the gruesome execution took place in Shora square.

Photos of the military campaigns to recapture major Isis strongholds in Syria, Libya and Iraq.

Top US military commander says quality and quantity of Daesh fighters declining in Iraq and Syria.

The family were trying to escape from al-Marir in Mosul to an area controlled by the Iraqi army.

A meeting was held in Washington to come up with a plan to throw the Islamic State out of Iraq and Syria.

The meeting will also grapple with the refugee fallout of the conflict.

Video was shot by helicopter flying above lines of Iraqi armoured vehicles approaching Qyyarah base.

The extremists are becoming increasingly paranoid as the borders of their self-proclaimed caliphate shrinks.

The cowardly jihadists were killed by their own men as punishment for fleeing in Sharqat in Salahuddin.

Isis leader Hayman Galal, known by his nom de Guerre Abi Abdul-Rahman al-Kurdi, was killed with 3 others.

As well as an offensive to take the Isis-held city of Fallujah, government troops are fighting near Mosul.