Mosul is a Sunni-dominated city but with a vocal Kurdish minority. In October's constitutional vote, Sunni turnout was near 60 percent of eligible voters, up sharply from January's parliamentary ...

MOSUL, Iraq — On a recent morning, a stream of armored vehicles brought American and Albanian soldiers here to lock down the Mosul airfield. A few hours later, U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte and ...

Army hatch gunner Brandon Jones may have missed the man who fired potshots at his head Saturday, but the sergeant managed to destroy a dangerous tool: the insurgent’s car. As U.S. and Iraqi forces ...

The northern Iraqi city of Mosul is seeing growing ethnic tensions and violence, and Kurdish militiamen have joined American forces trying to suppress the insurgency by Sunni Muslim militants. The ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 -- Insurgents who have vowed to disrupt Iraq's parliamentary elections unleashed attacks Monday that stretched the breadth of Iraq, from the kidnapping of a Catholic archbishop in the ...

MOSUL, Iraq -- From inside a vacant building, Sgt. 1st Class Domingo Ruiz watched through a rifle scope as three cars stopped on the other side of the road. A man carrying a machine gun got out and ...

Officials said 10 villages have already been freed. — -- The Iraqi and Kurdish offensive on Mosul is "ahead of schedule" after the operation's first day, a Pentagon official said today. Only a ...

U.S. military officials say violence is dropping around Mosul, where insurgents have for months escalated attacks. In January, U.S. military data show there were more than 500 attacks across Ninewa ...

When the altar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean Catholic Church was consecrated earlier this month in Mosul, Iraq, a former parishioner now living in the United States said she was moved to ...