The paramilitaries.often referred to as militia, include an estimated 3,000 Shia Turkmen from Tal Afar who were forced to flee in 2014 when Isis seized the city, though it had long been infamous ...

Tal Afar, Iraq – Iraq’s prime minister toured the ancient northern city of Tal Afar today – ignoring an alleged al-Qaeda threat to strike with chemical weapons – to congratulate Iraqi ...

The violence in Tal Afar is all the more depressing because that city was the site of the most recent, pre-Baghdad experiment in counter-insurgency tactics.

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a multi-pronged assault to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, marking the next phase in the country's war on the Islamic State group.

U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces on Sunday began a multi-pronged military operation to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, from the Islamic State group, Iraq’s prime minister announced.

Along with Tal Afar, ISIS fighters still control Hawija west of Kirkuk, as well as the towns of Qaim, Rawa and Ana near the Syrian border. ISIS captured Tal Afar on June 16, 2014, after a two-day ...

Iraqi Turkmen fighter Abbas Yussef is all smiles, clutching his Kalashnikov near the front lines in Tel Afar, after his unit retook his home neighborhood from Islamic State group jihadists. “I ...

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Tal Afar and the surrounding area is one of the last pockets of IS-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in July in Mosul, the country’s second-largest city.

BAGHDAD — U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces on Sunday began a multi-pronged military operation to retake the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, from the Islamic State group, Iraq's prime minister ...