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More than 100 ancient Assyrian and early Islamic artefacts are discovered in an Islamic State safe house on the recently recaptured Left Bank of Mosul in Iraq.
Topics: archaeology, history, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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The United Nations says it is "racing against the clock" to prepare emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of endangered civilians in Mosul with an Iraqi army offensive looming to oust Islamic State.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, human-interest, iraq
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Iraqi forces win a string of swift territorial gains in Mosul in the fight against the Islamic State group, including a number of buildings at the Mosul University, according to military officials.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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Iraqi special forces storm the Mosul University complex in the city's north-east, pushing forward to reach another bridge across the Tigris river and beating Islamic State militants further back, the military says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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Iraqi forces fight their way into two more south-eastern districts of Mosul, but their advances are being slowed by Islamic State's tactic of using civilians for cover, a military spokesman says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, world-politics, iraq
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| UpdatedA wave of attacks in and around Baghdad leaves more than 20 people dead, the latest in a series of assaults blamed on the Islamic State group.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq
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| UpdatedA suicide bomber who pretended to be a businessman seeking to hire labourers kills dozens of people when he detonates a ute loaded with explosives in a bustling market in Baghdad.
Topics: terrorism, world-politics, iraq
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| UpdatedTwo bombs claimed by the Islamic State group kill 25 people in central Baghdad, as fighting intensifies in the northern city of Mosul where government forces are trying to rout the jihadists from their last major stronghold in the country.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, iraq
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| UpdatedIraqi Christians in Bartella celebrate their first Christmas mass in the town since it was captured by the Islamic State group in 2014.
Topics: christmas, christianity, holy-see-vatican-city-state, canada, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied, france, iraq
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| UpdatedAs about 2,300 Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew spend the holidays serving in operations abroad, many post videos of well wishes to their loved ones at home.
Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, australia, afghanistan, iraq, south-sudan
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| UpdatedUS forces assisting Iraqi troops in the battle lo retake Mosul from Islamic State are embedding more extensively, a senior commander confirms, in a move that could accelerate a two-month-old campaign which has slackened after quick initial advances.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq, united-states
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| UpdatedAncient Christian Qaraqosh in Iraq was recently liberated from Islamic State, but as two sisters and their priest return, they wonder if they can find it in their hearts to start again.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, christianity, world-politics, iraq
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| UpdatedThe corporate regulator is not able to prove former Australian Wheat Board chairman Trevor Flugge and former senior officer Peter Geary knew of breaches to UN sanctions during the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, wheat, melbourne-3000, iraq
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| UpdatedSyria's ambassador to the UN appears to use an old photo taken in Iraq in an attempt to show the UN Security Council his Government's forces are not mistreating civilians in Aleppo.
Topics: world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, iraq
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Three families, all with children now studying at St Dominic's Primary School in Melbourne, tell harrowing stories of escaping Syria and Iraq.
Topics: refugees, community-and-society, education, immigration, unrest-conflict-and-war, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, iraq, syrian-arab-republic
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The battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul could take two more months and may not eliminate the Islamic State group threat, the commander of the US-led coalition says.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, iraq
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| UpdatedConflict, insurgency and vandalism are some of the reasons behind a new spate of ancient sites being reclassified by UNESCO as under threat.
Topics: history, unrest-conflict-and-war, syrian-arab-republic, mali, yemen, iraq, libyan-arab-jamahiriya
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Refugee camps are filling up fast as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul, forces Islamic State fighters to retreat.
Topics: refugees, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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| UpdatedIslamic State's fundamentalism and hyper-violence are infamous. But talking to those who lived in the eastern suburbs of Mosul for the two-and-a-half years of their administration reveals the finer details of their brutality.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq
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Middle East correspondent Matt Brown explores the Christian town of Bartella in northern Iraq, surveying Islamic State's trail of destruction.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, christianity, iraq
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Drone vision shows an oil field on fire in the Qayyarah district south of Mosul in Iraq.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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| UpdatedNewly released drone vision reveals the devastation burning oil fields are having on communities near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq
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| UpdatedThe situation in the Iraqi city of Mosul becomes more desperate with a key water pipe destroyed during fighting and supplies running low, aid agencies say.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, government-and-politics, terrorism, iraq
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Iraqi special forces battling to clear Islamic State from eastern Mosul have killed nearly 1,000 militants, a top commander says, but fighting has slowed as coalition troops face a mobile enemy hidden among thousands of civilians in the city.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, iraq