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People move quickly to avoid danger along the destroyed streets in Mosul after an airstrike attributed to the U.S. killed scores of people in Iraqi city.

Is Islamic State luring U.S. coalition forces into killing civilians in airstrikes?

August 21, 2019 at 10:44 p.m.

The Islamic State militants arrived at Khalida Abd Jamal's house through holes they cut in the concrete walls. Holding a gun to her husband's head, they corralled the family of...

U.S. acknowledges airstrike in Mosul, where more than 200 Iraqi civilians died

August 21, 2019 at 10:42 p.m.

An initial investigation of a recent airstrike believed to have killed more than 200 civilians in Mosul found it was conducted by the U.S.-led coalition at the request of Iraqi...

Adil Amash, left, and Hussein Hassan, who have been digging at the mass grave to try to find missing relatives, show Sunni militia member Sgt. Major Yasser Ahmed a list they have compiled of 118 people missing or presumed dead.

Bone by bone, Iraqis unearthing mass graves: ‘Many of the bodies, the hands were tied’

August 21, 2019 at 10:31 p.m.

The skull still had a thatch of brown hair attached. The lower jaw was missing, and the forehead had a hole in it. "Many of the bodies, the hands were...

Santo Isido Villegas Gizman, age 38, a farmworker from El Salvador, holds his son Jefferson, 3, after being stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Mc Allen, Texas.

You can build a wall — except here, a river runs through it

August 21, 2019 at 9:56 p.m.

Robert Cameron drove his pickup truck toward the Texas-Mexico border, past cotton and sugar cane fields, up to a 20-foot-tall metal and concrete border fence — and passed right through...

An Iraqi soldier snaps a selfie during Shiite militia forces training south of Mosul.

In the battle for Mosul, everybody’s taking selfies — and some of them may be incriminating

August 21, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

With the offensive to reclaim the Iraqi city of Mosul now in its third month, smartphones are everywhere on the battlefield, where the appetite for selfie photos is proving to...

Iraqis attend Christmas Mass at the Mar Shimoni church in Bartella, a predominantly Christian town recently recaptured from Islamic State.

With Christmas Eve Mass, Iraqi Assyrians reclaim church from Islamic State

August 21, 2019 at 9:28 p.m.

Ten white buses sped west from the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Saturday morning, packed with displaced Assyrians intent on spending Christmas Eve in their mostly Christian hamlet, recaptured...

U.S. and coalition special forces train Shiite militia recruits this month at a facility about 55 miles south of Mosul.

The United States is helping train Iraqi militias historically tied to Iran

August 21, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

In a significant break with past policy, U.S.-led forces in Iraq have started arming and training hundreds of fighters belonging to Shiite militias historically known for having ties to Iran....

Women and children who had just escaped the violence inside Mosul, by walking out, rest in a house before being transported to a displaced person's camp near Erbil, Iraq.

Islamic State is killing civilians, but some in Mosul refuse to leave their homes

August 21, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

Yasser Mahmoud carried a white flag, along with a small supply of rice, bread and water, as he returned to this city under siege. The 35-year-old photographer had talked with...

In the Cahra neighborhood of Mosul, the body of an Islamic State fighter killed overnight is found in the market area.

Iraqi forces accused of unlawful killings in fight to recapture Mosul from Islamic State

August 21, 2019 at 8:55 p.m.

The headless body was lying in a pool of blood in the street, partially covered by a tan blanket. An Iraqi military commander said the man was one of eight...

Lt. Col. Ali Hussein Fadil, right, directs some of the 166 Najaf-based special forces soldiers under his command, including Saud Messoud Jamal, 31, left, whose Mosul-area village the offensive has freed from Islamic State.

Iraqi band of brothers watch ‘American Sniper,’ play ‘Call of Duty’ – and they’re out to recapture Mosul

August 21, 2019 at 8:44 p.m.

Just before sunset on the first day of the Mosul offensive, Lt. Col. Ali Hussein Fadil called his soldiers to attention in a field about 30 miles east of the...

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