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 ...

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 ...

TAL AFAR, Iraq – Insurgents staged a classic guerrilla retreat from Tal Afar yesterday, melting into the countryside through a network of tunnels to escape an Iraqi-American force that reported ...

ABU GHADDUR, Iraq -- U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday began a multipronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iraqi forces have driven the Islamic State from central Tal Afar and its historic citadel, they said Saturday, placing them on the verge of fully recapturing one of the last IS strongholds in the ...