Mosul News

Details of the attack in Talafar, a town west of Mosul, are still coming in...The explosion was triggered as people gathered for the main congregational prayers of the week. Bookmark with:

For a city under constant attack at the hands of a violent Sunni Arab insurgency, northern Iraq's Mosul looks in better shape than it has for many years. Streets littered with bombed out rubble have been cleared and collapsed buildings...

Athletes and sports officials were frequent targets of threats, kidnappings and assassination attempts at the height of the insurgency here. Sportsmen were targeted for ransom or as part of the sectarian violence between Shiites and Sunnis that engulfed the country...

U.S. military officials in Kabul say they will phase in tan-colored Stryker armored vehicles to blend in with the Afghanistan countryside. "Safeguarding soldiers is the primary purpose for this color change," U.S...Peter Butts, commander of the 1st Battalion, 401st Army...

As with other women in her position, hiding seems to make sense. Post-traumatic stress disorder distorts personalities: some veterans who have it fight in their sleep; others feel paranoid around children. And as women return to a society unfamiliar with...