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Iraq’s IS trials bring swift verdicts, almost all guilty

By MAYA ALLERUZZO and SALAR SALIM - Associated Press

Fifteen-year-old Sana Younes died in a mortar attack in Mosul during the final battle to drive out Islamic State extremists, and her body was exhumed months later for forensic investigation. In this Oct. 9, 2017, photo, her brother Salem holds her identification card before her remains are reburied. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Mosul is a graveyard: Final IS battle kills 9,000 civilians

By SUSANNAH GEORGE, QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and MAGGIE MICHAEL and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Islamic State terrorists are gone, but Mosul is now filled with destroyed residential and commercial buildings. Faisal Jeber, director of Gilgamesh Center for Antiquities and Heritage Protection, said 30 percent to 50 percent of Mosul's historic Old City has been destroyed. (Wadood Sarmad)

Mosul war recovery threatens historic architecture

By Gilgamesh Nabeel and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Army Ranger describes battles of faith, fury in Iraq

By ERNEST HERNDON - Associated Press

Ahmed Pesher said 23 members of his family were killed during fighting in March in Mosul, Iraq. A U.S. airstrike in the Islamic State stronghold allegedly killed more than 100 people. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS fight will raise civilian casualties, rights groups fear

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Airstrikes targeted Islamic State positions in July after Iraqi prime minister declared "total victory" in Mosul. (Associated Press/File)

Declassified list shows sites in Mosul with unexploded bombs

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Although Tal Afar's city center and key infrastructure centers are under Iraqi control, Pentagon officials say coalition forces remain engaged in dangerous back-clearing operations against Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iraq battles ISIS, looks to political stability

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Latest: Iraqi military finds grave sites of IS victims

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2-17 file photo, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, center, speaks with an Iraqi officer during a tour north of Baghdad, Iraq. Senior U.S. commanders say Iraqi forces are largely set for their next major campaign against Islamic State extremists. Townsend, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said he sees the Iraqi assault on the IS-held area of Tal Afar “unfolding relatively soon.” (AP Photo/ Ali Abdul Hassan, File)

US: Iraqi forces ready for next battle against IS extremists

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE- In this March 22, 2017, file photo, a Federal Police stands next to unexploded bombs left by Islamic State group militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. On Thursday, Aug. 17, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said for the first time that the American military will help contractors and other officials locate unexploded bombs dropped by the coalition. U.S. Embassy officials have asked the coalition to declassify grid coordinates for bombs dropped in Iraq to help clear the explosives. The coalition's unexploded bombs are only a small part of Mosul's problems. The bulk of the explosives have been hidden by IS fighters to be triggered by the slightest movement, even picking up a seemingly innocent children's toy, lifting a vacuum cleaner, or opening an oven door. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Clearing Iraqi cities of explosives may take decades

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

US helping clear ‘historic’ amount of explosives in Mosul

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this Sunday, May 29, 2016 file photo, Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization forces fire artillery during a fight against Islamic State militants in Fallujah, Iraq. Iraq's mostly Shiite militia forces say they will participate in the next major battle against IS in Iraq after victory was declared in Mosul last month. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Thousands flee as Iraq steps up airstrikes on IS-held town

By BALINT SZLANKO and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Don’t blame the Kurds for Iraq’s unraveling

By David L. Phillips

The Peshmerga: Fearsome, fearless fighters

By Michael Pregent

Lieutenant General Raid Shaker Jawlat, center, of the Iraqi federal police talks with Colonel Pat Work of the U.S. Army's 82nd airborne division as they look at a map of Mosul, in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, June 30, 2017. Work warned that as Iraqi forces close in on the Islamic State group's last remaining positions in Mosul the troops are at increased risk of friendly fire attacks. (AP Photo/Balint Szlanko)

Islamic State loss of Mosul may presage greater victory in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, meets with Saudi King Salman, right, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. Tillerson has held talks with the king of Saudi Arabia and other officials from the countries lined up against Qatar, but there has been no sign of a breakthrough so far in an increasingly entrenched dispute that has divided some of America's most important Mideast allies. (U.S. State Department, via AP)

King Salman of Saudi Arabia congratulates Donald Trump on defeat of the Islamic State in Mosul

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this July 11, 2017 photo, the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. The 9-month fight to defeat the Islamic State group in Mosul ended in a crescendo of devastation: bombardment that damaged or destroyed a third of its historic Old City in just three weeks. The cost of uprooting the militants was the destruction of large swaths of Iraq’s second largest city, leaving a population that is displaced, exhausted and potentially embittered if there is no reconstruction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, Iraqi civilians walk toward Iraqi security forces after fleeing their homes due to fighting between government forces and Islamic State militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. 3,351,132 _ The number of Iraqis across the country who remained displaced by violence in the fight against IS as of June 30, according to the U.N. migration agency. As Iraqi forces have retaken territory from the militants, more than 1,952,868 people have been able to return home. Of those still displaced, the vast majority are from Nineveh province, where Mosul is located. Some 700,000 are sheltering in camps, while the rest are living with extended family or in rented housing. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

By the numbers: The fight against Islamic State in Iraq

By The Associated Press - Associated Press