Yesterday, the president rightly praised the work of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tal Afar. Commanded by Col. H.R. McMaster, the 3rd Cav regained control of a city that had been taken over ...

Iraqi forces backed by local militia and a US-led coalition were poised Sunday to drive the Islamic State group from the city of Tal Afar, dealing another blow to the jihadists. Just a week after ...

Recruits make their way through the 'shoot-house.' Photo: Jeff Emanuel Tal Afar, Iraq THE DAY BEGINS AT 0500, when the sun is still out of sight and the weather cool. As the pickup truck pulls up to ...

Iraqi troops, backed by the U.S. military, are finding little resistance while storming the city of Tal Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. The town is a suspected hub for insurgents waging a battle ...

Iraqi forces closed in Monday on Tal Afar on the second day of an offensive against the last major bastion of the Islamic State group in the countrys north, seizing several villages around the city.

The Iraqi army took another step toward doing things themselves when the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division was given the formal go-ahead to lead security operations for the city of ...

TAL AFAR, Iraq -- Insurgents staged a classic guerrilla retreat from Tal Afar on Sunday, melting into the countryside through a network of tunnels to escape an Iraqi-U.S. force that reported killing ...

Seizing the city of Tal Afar district by district, Iraqi fighters would take down the Islamic State group's black flags and hang them upside-down as they took "victory selfies". But of all the areas ...

TAL AFAR, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. and Iraqi forces allowed civilians to return to Tal Afar on Tuesday, signaling an end to a siege of the northern city that killed dozens of people and angered U.S. ally ...

TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State's stronghold in the country's northwest, the Iraqi military said on Sunday. After just eight days of fighting ...