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Iraqi News
January 3, 2018
Since then, forces took back the group's former capital, Mosul, the town of Tal Afar, Kirkuk's Hawija, and each of Annah, Rawa and Qaim in Anbar. The war against IS has displaced nearly five million people, with tens of thousands of civilians and militants killed since the launch of the offensives to recaptureÃÂ ...
WPRI 12 Eyewitness News
January 3, 2018
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2016 file photo, Popular Mobilization Units fighters ride on the back of a truck on their way to fight against Islamic State militants in the airport of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, Iraq. The operation to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, from the Islamic State group began Sunday morning,ÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
December 28, 2017
They had been arrested by soldiers while trying to flee Tal Afar, a western city near the border with Syria. They allegedly tried to blend in with hundreds of families fleeing the city as Iraqi forces stormed it to evict Islamic State militants. Next, reading from what he said was their confession to investigators, theÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
December 13, 2017
Meanwhile, another security source said five women were arrested at Tal Afar district in Mosul while trying to infiltrate into the Iraqi-Syrian border. They were taken to a police station for interrogation, the source told Baghdad Today website. On Tuesday, a security official announced the arrest of wives ofÃÂ ...
WIRED
December 12, 2017
The call echoes through the courtyard of a trash-strewn home in Tal Afar, a remote outpost in northern Iraq. It is late September and still hot, the kind of heat that seems to come from all sides, even radiate up from the ground, and the city is empty except for feral dogs and young men with guns. “Habibi!
Iraqi News
December 7, 2017
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces on Thursday discovered underground tunnels and hundreds of rockets belonging to Islamic State militants as they combed areas recaptured from the militant group in Nineveh and Anbar. Interior Ministry spokesman, Saad Maan, said in a press conference thatÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
September 14, 2017
FRANCE 24's special correspondents Abdallah Malkawi, Georges Yazbeck and James Andre entered the city alongside General Jassem, commander of the Iraqi Army unit in charge of Tal Afar, as his men swept the city for remaining IS group fighters. Meanwhile, the local authority is attempting to clear upÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 1, 2017
The majority of Tal Afar's structures are still standing, even if many have been defaced. Compared with the wholesale destruction in the battle to retake Mosul, where the worst-hit neighborhoods resemble the landscape after a 7.0-magnitude quake, the smaller city to the north is largely intact — even if itÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 31, 2017
Now the group is on its back foot with its latest loss, the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, which Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq declared liberated on Thursday. The relatively quick victory in Tal Afar, after an 11-day battle by Iraqi forces backed by American air power, comes on the heels of the gruelingÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
August 24, 2017
Tal Afar and the surrounding area are among the last pockets of ISIL-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in Mosul, the country's second-largest city. The city is located some 70km west of Mosul and about 150km east of the Syrian border, sitting along a major road that was a key ISIL supply route.
Department of Defense
August 23, 2017
Rupert Jones, OIR's deputy commander for strategy and support, briefed Pentagon reporters from Baghdad, announcing that the liberation of Tal Afar and the rest of Ninevah governorate essentially would end ISIS's military presence in northern Iraq. He said all Iraqi security forces branches are taking partÃÂ ...
BBC News
August 22, 2017
Iraqi forces have fought their way into the outskirts of the city of Tal Afar, one of so-called Islamic State's last remaining strongholds in the country. Counter-terrorism units entered the south-western Kifah district on Tuesday, the military said. IS militants responded by firing rockets and deploying suicide carÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 20, 2017
Tal Afar, once a remote military outpost for the Ottoman Empire, fell to the Islamic State in 2014. It was strategically significant for its location along a supply route between Mosul and Syria, where the militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is also on its heels as it defends its de facto capital there, Raqqa.
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
They had been arrested by soldiers while trying to flee Tal Afar, a western city near the border with Syria. They allegedly tried to blend in with hundreds of families fleeing the city as Iraqi forces stormed it to evict Islamic State militants. Next, reading from what he said was their confession to investigators, theÃÂ ...
CNN
November 10, 2017
... to stay back as he began walking towards the person, fearing a possible suicide bomber from the ISIS-controlled town of Tal Afar nearby.
Yeni Şafak English
October 31, 2017
Turkey has agreed with the Iraqi Central Government to open another border gate with Iraq through Tal Afar, home to a predominantly ethnic ...
Al-Arabiya
October 31, 2017
Yildirim also said that Turkey had agreed to open another border gate with Iraq, as part of a route that would lead to the city of Tal Afar, some 40Â ...
Iraqi News
October 28, 2017
A tank of Iraqi army fires against Islamic State militants at Al Jazeera neighbourhood of Tal Afar, Iraq, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer NOÂ ...
Inside NoVA
October 28, 2017
Khweis allegedly travelled to multiple safe houses over 10 weeks in early 2016, ultimately stationed in Tal Afar, Iraq. Kurdish Peshmerga ...
Newsweek
October 17, 2017
The group continues to hold on to the Syrian cities of Deir Ezzor and Mayadin, the Iraqi city of Tal Afar and territory along the Syria-Iraq border.
Aljazeera.com
October 11, 2017
Nearby Tal Afar, a onetime hotbed of hardliners, was swiftly liberated soon afterwards. Coupled with recent events in Hawija, these losses have ...
Middle East Eye
October 10, 2017
TAL AFAR, Iraq - Once home to 200,000 people, Tal Afar sits amid the light-brown plains of northwest Iraq's desert dust. To the east is Mosul, ...
Antiwar.com
October 9, 2017
A civil war could erupt over contested city of Kirkuk if disputes concerning the Kurdish referendum go unresolved, according to Iraqi Vice ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 30, 2017
Meantime, Iraqi security officials announced that the ISIL has sent US-made military equipment to Tal Afar region in the last two days to stand ...
Gulf Times
September 29, 2017
"It's the first mass grave of this kind to have been discovered" near Tal Afar, some 70 kilometres west of Mosul, local official Abdelaal Abbas ...
Iraqi News
September 28, 2017
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have found a mass grave containing relics of Islamic State militants near Tal ...
The Times
September 20, 2017
... a small number from France and Germany, surrendered along with up to 200 men and teenage boys outside Tal Afar, near Mosul, last month.
New York Times
August 31, 2017
Iraqi forces advancing toward the village of Ayadiya on Tuesday during an operation to retake the city of Tal Afar from the Islamic State.
Aljazeera.com
August 24, 2017
During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the progress in Tal Afar as "excellent", calling it ...
BBC News
August 22, 2017
Iraqi forces have fought their way into the outskirts of the city of Tal Afar, one of so-called Islamic State's last remaining strongholds in the ...
BBC News
August 19, 2017
Iraqi ground forces have begun an operation to retake Tal Afar, one of the last cities in the country held by the Islamic State group, officials say.
Iraqi News
July 31, 2017
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A drone guided by the U.S.-led coalition killed 12 Islamic State militants near the group's last stronghold west of ...
Arab News
December 31, 1999
Fighters from the Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitaries advance toward the city of Tal Afar, the main remaining stronghold of ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
From the struggle of prolonged urban warfare, to the thrill of victory and the brutal aftermath, VOA brings you to three cities – Mosul and Tal Afar in Iraq and ...
Iraqi News
September 28, 2017
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have found a mass grave containing relics of Islamic State militants near TalÃÂ ...
The Times
September 20, 2017
... a small number from France and Germany, surrendered along with up to 200 men and teenage boys outside Tal Afar, near Mosul, last month.
Xinhua
September 17, 2017
MOSUL, Iraq, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Eight people were killed and 18 others wounded on Sunday when a booby-trapped school buildingÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
September 16, 2017
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several Islamic State members were arrested as security troops were combing the group's recently lost bastion inÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
September 15, 2017
Tal Afar, one of the last strongholds of the Islamic State (IS) group, was recaptured by Iraqi forces in August. FRANCE 24 was able to enter theÃÂ ...
Punjab News Express
September 11, 2017
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces on Monday killed 80 Islamic State (IS) terrorists during a search campaign in the liberated areas near the city ofÃÂ ...
Rudaw
September 11, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurdish Peshmerga commanders announced they killed 17 ISIS militants as Iraqi forces continue to find and flush bands of ISISÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
September 11, 2017
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces killed 17 Islamic State militants northwest of Tal Afar, two weeks after the enclave was recaptured byÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 8, 2017
The citadel of the Iraqi city of Tal Afar (Talafer) dating back to the Assyrian period of 700 BCE dominated the city and could be seen from everyÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
September 8, 2017
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave composed of relics of fifty persons, with parts of their bodies missing, was found in west of Mosul, an IraqiÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
September 8, 2017
Another one of the siblings, Dilşat, reportedly escaped the clashes in Tal Afar and crossed into Raqqa. He reached out to his family some 45ÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
September 7, 2017
A tank of Iraqi army fires against Islamic State militants at Al Jazeera neighbourhood of Tal Afar, Iraq, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer NOÃÂ ...
Iraqi News
September 6, 2017
A tank of Iraqi army fires against Islamic State militants at Al Jazeera neighbourhood of Tal Afar, Iraq, August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer NOÃÂ ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 6, 2017
TAL AFAR, Iraq — An airstrike left a crater the size of a tennis court in one neighborhood. Artillery punched a gaping hole in the minaret of theÃÂ ...
The National
September 5, 2017
Members of the Iraqi Shiite Saraya Al Salam (Peace Brigade) militia take part in a military operation near the city of Samarra city on August 4,ÃÂ ...
Rudaw
September 3, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The commander of the Tal Afar operation has said that they have made no deal to transfer ISIS militants from TalÃÂ ...
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