Iraqi troops make heavy weather of retaking villages en route to first major objective of the campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS.
The National: Tentative push for Mosul reveals Iraq army’s failings

Iraqi troops make heavy weather of retaking villages en route to first major objective of the campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS.
The mosque contained what Muslims and Christians believe was the tomb of Jonah. It also held a shrine said to have contained […]
Yazidis join Shiite militias as they flush out ISIL militants from the village of Kocho in southern Sinjar.
Mass graves and the survivors of massacres tell of the horrors inflicted on the Yazidi minority by ISIS.
With fighting still ongoing on the other side of the river, some semblance of normality is slowly returning to eastern Mosul.