16 May 2008 (Azzaman) -- The northern city of Mosul, home to nearly three million people, is now a city of ghosts.

Baghdad and Mosul, 16 May 2008 (Gulf News) -- Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki on Thursday vowed to impose law and order in northern Iraq and said an offensive against Al Qaida militants would end the ...

Baghdad, 16 May 2008 (Gulf News) -- It is expected that the US and Iraqi Operation Lion's Roar against Al Qaida in Mosul, northern Iraq, will step up action in the forthcoming days.

Baghdad, 16 May 2008 (Los Angeles Times) -- Inside his olive-green tent, Abbas Laibi Sadoon unveiled the fresh scar on the right shoulder of his 7-year-old son, Ali. It was caused, Sadoon said, by ...

Washington, 16 May 2008 (The Guardian) -- President George Bush used a visit to Israel yesterday to denounce Democratic party offers to negotiate with America's enemies in the Middle East as comparable ...

Washington, 16 May 2008 (The Guardian) -- Republican presidential nominee John McCain today predicted that most US forces would withdraw from Iraq by 2013, after having helped shape the country into ...

Beirut, 16 May 2008 (The Daily Star) -- When US forces stormed Baghdad on April 8, 2003 and, in a carefully staged propaganda stunt, tore down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square, the first ...

Mosul, 16 May 2008 (AFP) -- Iraqi security forces carried out mass arrests in the main northern city of Mosul on Thursday as a major crackdown against Al-Qaeda entered its second day, officials said.

London, 16 May 2008 (KurdishMedia) -- During the last 10 days, 14 women left dead and 17 are wounded in different parts of southern Kurdistan, according to a report published in biweekly Awene on Thursday.

Washington, 16 May 2008 (IWPR) -- Kurds should explore the possibility of a power-sharing agreement for Kirkuk because the competing claims of the province’s communities will not be resolved through ...