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11 Sep 2017

Iraq says 90 per cent of IS-controlled areas regained

"The joy of victory has been completed and the entire province of Nineveh has become in the hands of our heroic forces," Abadi said.

31 Aug 2017

Iraq announces another major victory over IS jihadists

Tal Afar was the last major population centre in northern Iraq still under jihadist control and its loss deprives IS of what was once a key supply hub between its territory in Syria and Iraq.

31 Aug 2017

Iraq retakes Tal Afar and rest of Nineveh province from IS

Iraq`s government declared on Thursday that its forces had retaken the northern city of Tal Afar and the rest of Nineveh province, once almost entirely controlled by Islamic State group jihadists.

28 Aug 2017

Car bomb kills eight in eastern Baghdad market: Medics

A car bomb killed at least eight people in a crowded vegetable market in a Shi`ite Muslim district of Baghdad on Monday, police and medics said.

28 Aug 2017

Car bomb kills 11 in Baghdad's Sadr City market

A car bomb exploded in a market in the Iraqi capital`s Shiite-majority district of Sadr City on Monday killing 11 people and wounding another 26.

28 Aug 2017

Heavy clashes in last pocket of IS fighters near Tal Afar

In Iraq, the jihadist group now only controls the city of Hawija, about 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Baghdad, and desert areas along the border with Syria.

27 Aug 2017

Iraqi forces retake most of Tal Afar from Islamic State: Military

Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State`s stronghold in the country`s northwest, the Iraqi military said in a statement on Sunday.

26 Aug 2017

Islamic State's stronghold Tal Afar about to fall: Iraqi military

The quick collapse of Islamic State in Tal Afar, a breeding ground for jihadist groups in Iraq, confirmed Iraqi military reports that the militants lack command and control structures in the areas west of Mosul.

26 Aug 2017

Iraq retakes Tal Afar from ISIS

The CTS and federal police units had also seized three northern districts and the Al-Rabia neighbourhood west of the citadel, a day after taking the district of Al-Talia to the south.

31 Jul 2017

Iraqi general sees easy victory over exhausted IS fighters in Tal Afar

The US role is less conspicuous this time, and the historic citadel is no longer standing because Islamic State blew it up.

23 Nov 2016

Iraqi civilians flee as paramilitary groups close in on flashpoint town west of Mosul

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have fled Tal Afar as Shi`ite paramilitary groups close in the Islamic State-held town on the road between Mosul and Raqqa, the main cities of the militant group`s self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

21 Nov 2016

Iraq Shi'ite paramilitaries close to cutting Mosul supply route

Cutting the western road to Tal Afar would seal off Mosul as the city is already surrounded to the north, south and east by Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

17 Nov 2016

Islamic State killed 300 former policemen south of Mosul: HRW

The residents said they believed up to 200 people were killed in the weeks before Islamic State withdrew from the town.

29 Oct 2016

Iraq forces launch operation to cut Mosul off from Syria

Tal Afar was a Shiite-majority town before the Sunni extremists of IS overran it in 2014, and its recapture is a main goal of Shiite militia forces.

French warplanes

25 Nov 2015

French warplanes hit IS command center near Mosul: Official

The aerial assault, which took place around 1830 GMT, was conducted jointly with the US Air Force and last about five hours, the French defense ministry said in a statement.

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