THE LATEST IRAQ NEWS FROM MAILONLINE

ISIS jihadis 'turned sinkhole off the Baghdad-Mosul highway into a mass grave for 4,000 bodies'

25/02/17 15:32

Four hundred meters deep and containing up to 4,000 bodies, this sinkhole is thought to be the biggest mass grave in Iraq. The Khasfa sinkhole has swallowed the mutilated bodies of ISIS' enemies since the jihadis captured Mosul in 2014. It is now so infamous that locals tremble when they speak of the atrocities committed there. 'Daesh would drive the victims to Khasfa in convoys of minibuses, trucks and pick ups,' said one villager. Inset Iraqi forces fight ISIS in Mosul. ...read

Air Force buys mysterious $15m Israeli 'drone killer' kits to fight DIY ISIS UAVs

24/02/17 23:25

The deal is with ELTA North America, a U.S. subsidiary of Israeli Aerospace Industries which does produce a 'drone buster' called Drone Shield.

Iraqi forces promise to go easy on ISIS fighters if they kill foreign militants as Iraq troops regain control of Mosul's airport from jihadists

24/02/17 12:48

Iraqi forces fighting ISIS in western Mosul also asked locals to pick up weapons and join the fight as they secured the city's airport and a sprawling military base from ISIS members on Friday.

Nine Iraqi asylum seekers charged with gang-raping a teacher in Austria will NOT be deported if found guilty in case they are executed in their home country

23/02/17 15:43

The nine asylum seekers, who are all from the same family, have gone on trial in the Austrian capital Vienna accused of the New Year's Eve 2015 gang rape of a 28-year-old German teacher.

Iraqi forces line up the corpses of more than 30 dead ISIS fanatics killed in a single battle west of Mosul

23/02/17 14:12

Video footage from the Tal Afar countryside in Iraq released on Thursday shows the corpses of terrorists killed by the Hezbollah Battalion, of the Popular Mobilization Forces.

Iraqi forces take Mosul airport from ISIS as troops reclaim the western side of the city

23/02/17 12:36

Iraq's militarized police forces have entered Mosul International Airport as part of a major assault that started five days ago to drive IS militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

Family of nine Iraqi asylum seekers 'gang-raped drunk woman in Austria for two hours as she pleaded "No, I don't want this" after luring her from her friends on New Year's Eve'

23/02/17 11:31

Nine asylum seekers from the same family have gone on trial in the Austrian capital Vienna accused of the New Year's Eve 2015 gang rape of a 28-year-old German teacher.

'ISIS girls are like gangsters... They are so violent!' Wife of grinning suicide bomber who got £1m from taxpayer fled Syria with five children 'because it was not her cup of tea'

23/02/17 11:18

Shukee Begum (pictured) begged for help to return to her native Manchester months after arriving in Syria, saying Syria was 'not her cup of tea' and the women were even more twisted than she expected.

Lawyer who helped Guantanamo Bay prisoners win multi-million pound settlements could be struck-off for 'misconduct' over the discredited Iraq war claims against the British Army

23/02/17 11:15

Sapna Malik and her colleague Martyn Day of Leigh Day law firm in London are facing 19 allegations from the Solicitors Regulation Authority and could be struck off.

Revealed - Disgraced lawyer who hounded Iraq veterans plotted with Holocaust denier to launch legal action BEFORE war even started

23/02/17 09:11

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Shiner, 60, plotted with a group of radical activists to bring legal action even before a shot was fired – yet was still given £1.6million of public money to pursue his spurious cases.

The grinning jihadi and a shameful legacy of torture: Disturbing questions remain over the complicity of British intelligence agents in the illegal rendition of terror suspects by America

23/02/17 02:44

Grinning from ear to ear, the Islamic State suicide bomber Ronald Fiddler looks relaxed – joyful even – as he prepares to drive a truck packed with explosives into an Iraqi army base (pictured).

Secret RAF drone strikes take out British jihadis: Our 'pilots' working way through kill list of UK fanatics fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria

23/02/17 02:07

RAF pilots have been secretly assassinating British jihadists plotting UK terror attacks from bases in Syria and Iraq and neither the public nor Parliament have been informed about the strikes.

The ISIS suicide bomber YOU paid £1million! British fighter who blew himself up in Mosul was compensated for serving time in Gitmo - after Tony Blair got him freed - then fled to join ISIS

23/02/17 00:10

The terrorist, named by ISIS as Abu Zakariya al-Britani but born Ronald Fiddler (pictured), was photographed moments before dying in a targeted bombing of a military facility near Mosul in Iraq.

'This is scandalous': MPs blast £1 MILLION compensation for 'innocent' Gitmo Briton who has now blown himself up for ISIS in Mosul leaving his wife and five children in war zone

22/02/17 22:04

The terrorist, named by ISIS as Abu Zakariya al-Britani but born Ronald Fiddler (pictured), was photographed moments before dying in a targeted bombing of a military facility near Mosul in Iraq.

The ISIS suicide bomber who was paid $1.25MILLION in compensation by the British government because he was locked up in Guantanamo

22/02/17 20:47

A British ISIS suicide bomber has been revealed as a former Guantanamo prisoner who was handed the equivalent of $1.25million in British taxpayers' money as compensation.

Who needs Brooklyn? Meet the dapper, bearded, pocket square-wearing, bike riding hipsters of... Iraq

22/02/17 16:55

A group of men in Iraqi Kurdistan have started their own fashion club called Mr. Erbil.

Relief at last for the starving animals of Mosul! Aid workers treat animals left to die at zoo once taken over by ISIS

21/02/17 21:27

Aid workers from charity Four Paws have come to the zoo in Nour Park to give the bear and lion left medical attention. Volunteers also fed the emaciated animals with an apple and a dead bird.

Britons fighting on both sides in the battle for Mosul: Elite SAS troops spearhead attack... while British ISIS fanatic carries out suicide bombing in retaliation

21/02/17 15:10

Elite SAS troops are spearheading the attack on western Mosul today alongside US commandos and Iraqi forces who have been backed by jets and helicopters.

'I was raped every day for a month in front of my children': Women reveal the horrors they endured as ISIS sex slaves... despite being SUNNI Muslims just like their captors

21/02/17 03:12

A human rights group has uncovered cases of detentions, beatings, forced marriages and rape by the jihadists on Sunni women who have fled the town of Hawijah, which is still under ISIS control.

British ISIS fighter carries out suicide bomb attack at military HQ outside Mosul as Iraqi forces move to reclaim the city

20/02/17 14:32

A statement by the terror group named the bomber, who was driving an explosives laden vehicle, as Abu Zakariya al-Britani.

America WON'T seize Iraq's oil, Mattis says: Defense Secretary abandons Trump plan to recoup the cost of supporting the war-torn country

20/02/17 12:35

US Defense Secretary James Mattis, pictured arriving in Baghdad today reassured Iraqi officials that America has no intention of seizing any oilfields to pay for the ongoing war against ISIS.

SAS spearhead fresh offensive to retake western Mosul from ISIS as four more villages are liberated from the terror group

20/02/17 07:50

Iraqi government soldiers swiftly retook at least five villages and set their sights on Mosul airport, marking a new phase in Iraq's largest military operation in years.

Couple become only the second to marry in bleak Iraqi refugee camp after fleeing ISIS... but they don't look very happy about it

17/02/17 02:30

The camp witnessed the marriage of Hussein Danoon and Shahad Abed (pictured) as the pair celebrated their wedding less than a month after escaping IS forces in Mosul.

Obliterated! ISIS headquarters in Mosul is blown away by RAF Typhoon strike mission

16/02/17 17:28

This is the final moment before an ISIS headquarters building in Mosul exploded after being bombed by a flight of RAF Typhoon jets which destroyed the building.

Shocking new ISIS video shows two young boys blowing themselves up as suicide bombers

14/02/17 19:36

The video begins with the two fresh-faced youngsters, from Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan, kneeling on a mound. It shows them getting into their rigged vehicles before driving towards enemy targets.

Iraqi air strike hits house where meeting of ISIS commanders was taking place, killing at least 13

14/02/17 14:54

Iraqi warplanes have hit a house where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was holding a meeting with senior commanders, killing at least 13.

Tony Blair could be hauled before the courts over the Iraq War 'after lawyers working for British troops claim Chilcot Report shows he misled Parliament to justify 2003 invasion'

13/02/17 17:31

Top barristers working for bereaved relatives of British troops killed in the conflict believe there is evidence that the ex-Prime Minister committed 'misfeasance in public office'.

ISIS uses drones to drop bombs on Iraqi army tanks in shocking new video from war-torn city of Mosul

11/02/17 17:39

The video shows three bombs being dropped from the sky, and it is believed some of the footage was taken in war-torn Mosul.

Failed French rapper turned ISIS kingpin is targeted in a US air strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul

11/02/17 16:29

Rachid Kassim, a failed French rapper who became one of the most wanted ISIS terrorists has been targeted in a coalition air strike near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

At last, an end to the witch-hunt: Victory for the Mail as a £60million probe that hounded our troops for seven years over Iraq is scrapped

11/02/17 00:58

Michael Fallon said the Iraq Historic Allegations Team, which once had 3,600 claims on its books, will have its caseload slashed to just 20. The news was welcomed by the Chief of General Staff.

Discredited probe into British soldier abuse claims 'directly harmed the defence of our nation', say MPs

11/02/17 00:57

A group of cross-party politicians said the Iraq Historical Allegations Team was 'unfit for purpose' and threatened to hinder the ability of soldiers to defend the country.

Starving, the last survivors of the zoo held by ISIS thugs: Only a bear and a lion remain at Mosul Zoo after the other animals were killed by shrapnel, died of starvation or escaped

10/02/17 22:27

The animals were found wandering close to their enclosures in Nour Park, Iraq. They are being cared for by the Kurdistan Organisation for Animal Rights Protection and children throw fruit to them.

The heartwarming moment boy, 6, is reunited with his real Yazidi family after ISIS killed his parents and sold him for $500 to a Muslim couple

10/02/17 19:28

This is the moment a six-year-old boy was reunited with his family after ISIS killed his parents and sold him for $500. Ayman was sold to Muslim couple Umm and Abu Ahmed when he was four.

Witch-hunt of Iraq veterans will be shut down by the summer, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon reveals after senior MPs blame the MOD for 'allowing it to happen'

10/02/17 17:07

The announcement from Michael Fallon (pictured) comes just hours after MPs on the Commons defence committee demanded an end to the probes.

ISIS fanatics living in fear of vigilante dubbed the Mosul Strangler after a jihadi was found smothered and a civilian stabbed a militant

08/02/17 22:15

The Islamic State put curfews in place in three residential areas in Tal Afar after the man was found dead, and ten people were arrested as they searched for the alleged assassin

Pentagon admits it has performed THOUSANDS more airstrikes than it has previously disclosed

08/02/17 14:41

The Pentagon has failed to disclose up to thousands of potentially lethal airstrikes by the US in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan over the course of several years.

Government's Iraq abuse inquiry 'witch hunt' against British troops should be scrapped immediately, MPs are set to say in damning report

08/02/17 11:49

Tory backbencher Johnny Mercer, who is leading a parliamentary inquiry into Ihat, said he believed a 'rotten core' of civil servants had warped the purpose of the process.

My big fat MOSUL wedding! Couple tie the knot with glitter, dancing and KALASHNIKOVS in city's first public ceremony since fall of Isis

07/02/17 18:11

Iraqi officers fired their guns into the clear Mosul sky as newlyweds Jassem, 20, and Rana, 18, made their way to his family home in the eastern half of the city which has been finally liberated from ISIS.

Iraqi girl, 10, is 'bitten to death' with medieval torture device by female ISIS fanatics after her mother was asked to choose if she or the child would be punished for stepping outside their house

07/02/17 16:04

The youngster, named Faten, was punished by the fanatics' morality police after stepping over the threshold of her home while cleaning.

'Crucified' for smuggling cigarettes: Two men are publicly punished by ISIS fanatics for trying to bring tobacco into Mosul

07/02/17 11:21

They were reprimanded in the city of Mosul, Iraq, under the terror group's law, which states cigarettes are illegal as it is viewed as a form of suicide, which is illegal under Islamic sharia law.

'We leave them so dogs eat them': ISIS terrorists are left to rot alongside their suicide belts on the streets of Mosul as Iraqi army tries to stamp out any support for jihadists

06/02/17 22:44

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The fly-blown corpses of ISIS militants have been left to rot on a main street in Mosul as the Iraqi Army leave them as a grisly warning to others.

Iran is set to 'showcase its power' with a missile test for a Revolutionary Guards exercise after Trump's defense secretary calls Tehran the 'world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism'

04/02/17 22:40

Iran is today testing missile and radar systems to 'showcase its power' to new US President Donald Trump. The test retaliates to sanctions on Tehran yesterday for a recent ballistic missile trial.

ISIS bomb expert accidentally blows himself up along with a fellow jihadist as they planted road-side explosives in Iraq

03/02/17 08:28

The bungling Islamic State militant, nicknamed Abu Abdullah, died alongside his companion in the town of Shirqat, Iraq. He was part of one of the terror group's top booby-trapping cells.

ISIS amputate the hands of two boys aged ten and 12 who refused to execute two civilians in front of their families in Mosul

03/02/17 01:18

Fanatics trained up a group of children from its stronghold in western Mosul to fight against advancing Iraqi troops.

Heartbreaking photos reveal suffering of Mosul zoo animals including a lion and a bear left to starve to death by ISIS

02/02/17 21:48

An emaciated lioness was found cowering in a squalid cage and lying on exposed cables at Al-Murur public park, in Mosul, Iraq, after the area was liberated from ISIS.

'Fairfield is full… we're too crowded': Refugee residents of the western Sydney suburb where HALF of all Syrian and Iraqi asylum seekers will settle tell others not to come to the area

02/02/17 01:33

Australians from the Middle East have warned refugees fleeing war-ravaged Iraq and Syria against building a new life for themselves in Sydney's western suburbs.

Revealed: Detroit business owner LIED when he claimed Trump's travel ban caused his sick Iraqi mother to die

01/02/17 22:22

Michigan man Mike Hager falsely claimed his mother fell ill while in Iraq and later died because she was not allowed to return to the US to receive urgent treatment because of Trump's travel ban.

Immigration ban separates badly burned toddler from his family after his father flew back to Iraq for the birth of his son named TRUMP

01/02/17 21:13

An Iraqi baby was taken to Shriners Hospital in Boston after he was burned in an explosion in a refugee camp. The father returned to Iraq for the birth of his baby Trump, but is now stranded.

Detroit business owner claims Trump's travel ban caused his sick Iraqi mother to die after she was stopped from flying to the U.S. for urgent treatment

01/02/17 18:23

American citizen Mike Hager had been trying to fly back to Michigan with his sick Iraqi mother Naimma, who has lived in the US for 22 years, when she was stopped from boarding a plane in Iraq.

Fixer 'was paid £500 a time for each person he got to accuse British soldiers of abuse'

01/02/17 00:29

Mazin Younis (right) was also handed £500 by disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for each Iraqi he persuaded to accuse soldiers of committing murder or torture, a tribunal in London heard.

'She endured hell': Purple Heart Iraq War veteran and his wife convicted in the killing of their five-year-old daughter as the two await the birth of their second child

31/01/17 22:29

Phillip and Vickie Gleason were both sentenced to prison for the 2013 murder of their daughter, who was killed by her father, while Vicki carries the Lancaster, South Carolina couple's second baby.

Poll shows support for Trump's travel order 'even if it means turning away refugees' as a majority back 'requiring immigrants from Muslim countries to register with the federal government'

31/01/17 14:32

Polling taken early this month showed majority support for a general expression of President Trump's controversial plan to halt immigration from 'terror-prone' countries.

'Let the dogs eat them': Chilling images inside 'liberated' Mosul show dead bodies of ISIS fighters lay rotting in the streets and EATEN by wild dogs

31/01/17 14:20

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The decaying bodies of ISIS fighters litter the streets of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, after a government led offensive freed its citizens of the terror group's rule.

What a coward: Soldier's verdict on disgraced lawyer who hounded our innocent troops for years... But claims HE's too stressed to go to his own tribunal!

31/01/17 10:04

Phil Shiner, a solicitor who worked for the now-defunct Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), sent the tribunal in central London a letter asking for the case to be adjourned on the basis that he was not well.

Husband of pregnant Missouri nurse hoping to be in US for their son's birth is now stuck in Iraq and will likely miss it after Trump's immigration ban

30/01/17 20:53

Rachel Adrian, a nurse from Missouri, and her Iraqi Kurd husband, Hoger Ameen, were looking forward to welcoming their son together Thursday, but Trump's travel ban brought their plans to a halt.

Iraq brings in travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move

30/01/17 18:12

Iraq has banned US citizens from travelling to the country in a tit-for-tat move following Donald Trump's extreme vetting executive order.

Islamic State's chief executioner - who has beheaded more than 100 people - is knifed to death in an ambush in Iraq

30/01/17 17:11

Nicknamed Abu Sayyaf, he was dubbed one of the terror groups scariest decapitators and was paraded in their sick videos for his huge frame and was ISIS' leader in Nineveh State, Iraq.

'I cannot fight jihad today as I have a bad back': Sick notes written by ISIS fighters desperate to escape the front line are uncovered… from headaches to sore feet

30/01/17 16:45

As the terror group is flushed out of areas of Iraq, coalition forces have uncovered documents that belong to the Tarek ibn Ziad battalion that operates in Iraq revealing ISIS fighters' complaints.

Cheer up, at least we've seen off one dodgy lawyer, MoD tells soldiers in morale-boosting letter from top brass

30/01/17 00:40

British soldiers hounded by over their conduct in Iraq have been told by the Ministry of Defence to ‘take comfort’ from the prosecution of the human rights lawyer behind many of the allegations.

221 shares We've seen off one dodgy lawyer, MoD tells soldiers

The wedding of freedom: Cheering Mosul residents celebrate first marriage since ISIS was crushed in the east of the city as female guests ditch their veils in celebration

27/01/17 17:28

Pictures show smiling wedding guests in a white car covered in decorations in a recaptured eastern part of eastern Mosul in Iraq.

Iraqi troops find over 100 priceless Assyrian artefacts plundered from ancient ruins hidden under the home of an ISIS leader in Mosul

27/01/17 16:36

The ancient clay pots, vases and other artefacts uncovered are believed to have come from the Niveveh Ruins as well as Nimrud, which has been reduced to ruins by the terror group in Mosul.

Iraqi forces discover terrifying arsenal of weapons including mustard gas and dozens of ageing rockets in ISIS arms warehouse

27/01/17 15:18

The weapons were found among dozens of rockets hidden in a storage unit in Mosul with Iraqi troops claiming the haul presented a 'huge chemical threat'.

Is the Pentagon trying to undermine Trump? Department of Defense tweets about Iraqi refugee who became a Marine on the same day President bans immigrants from seven Muslim countries

26/01/17 16:10

Hours after it was revealed that President Donald Trump was going to sign a temporary ban on most refugees, the Department of Defense highlighted the story of Marine Cpl Ali J Mohammed.

ISIS executes a judge and four of its leading commanders for fleeing a battle with Iraqi troops in Mosul

26/01/17 12:07

The judge, nicknamed Abu Hafsa, and the four other commanders ran away from the battle for eastern Mosul and were eventually captured before being shot by firing squad in front of a large crowd.

Boy so small he can barely see over the steering wheel is 'star' of terrifying ISIS video where he sets off a suicide car bomb moments after an attack drone drops grenades on Mosul

25/01/17 13:16

Footage shows the boy, no older than 14, climbing into an armour-clad vehicle before aerial shots shows him driving towards a target in war-torn Mosul, Iraq.

Iraqi forces retake last area of Mosul east of the Tigris River after 100 days of deadly fighting – but now comes the even harder battle to regain control of the city's western districts held by ISIS

25/01/17 00:14

Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi has said his troops have completely liberated eastern Mosul three months after the operation to retake the city had begun.

Iraqi troops torture and execute three ISIS fighters in a sickening video which has enraged the United Nations

24/01/17 23:37

A sickening video has emerged of Iraqi forces torturing and executing three ISIS militants. The harrowing footage shows men in army uniform parading their victims through Mosul, Iraq.

ISIS unveils a new remote-controlled drone that they film dropping a BOMB in Mosul

24/01/17 12:26

The Islamic State has unveiled its latest unmanned bombing drone. The terror group showed off its latest weapon in propaganda video filmed in Mosul, Iraq.

Terrifying Robot Wars-style ISIS tank bomb is stopped in its tracks when elite Iraqi forces kill the driver in battle to retake Mosul

24/01/17 11:54

The massive homemade tank bomb was stopped in its tracks by elite Iraqi troops in besieged Mosul before it could reach its target.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'critically injured in air strikes in northern Iraq'

23/01/17 18:05

The terror mastermind is said to have been wounded after a bombing raid in Al-Ba'aj. Baghdadi last month released a defiant audio message urging his supporters to defend the city of Mosul.

Meet Iraq’s hipsters: Incredibly well-groomed Kurdish men launch clothing brand to prove Iraq is not just a country of war and terrorism

23/01/17 16:32

Mr Erbil is a gathering of Kurdish men who are widely regarded as Iraq's first gentleman's club and have done away with the traditional tatty outfits of the area and replaced them with snappy suits.

ISIS prisoners are shot in the head and have their throats cut in gruesome mass execution of 'spies' and captured Iraqi soldiers

22/01/17 09:19

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Captured Iraqi soldiers and prisoners accused of being spies are either shot in the head or have their throats cut in the grim video, filmed in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.

No escape! Cowardly ISIS terrorists fleeing Battle of Mosul are hit in US-led coalition airstrikes on 90 boats and three barges

21/01/17 23:57

Video footage captured the boats being struck as they crossed the Tigris River which runs through the Iraqi city. The militants had taken to the water to escape the east of the city.

ISIS arms toy drones with GRENADES to bomb Iraqi troops: RAF pilots hunt down the devices amid fears the weapons could be used against British troops

21/01/17 06:58

Typhoon warplanes blitzed a base packed full of the drones and their barbaric operators using 500lb laser-guided bombs last week.

From the horrors of war to paradise: Joyful moment 100 Syrian and Iraq refugees celebrate their first trip to an Australian beach

20/01/17 01:22

Refugees fleeing war-torn Syria and Iraq have experienced their first day out at an Australian beach. Joseph Ghazal joined 100 other refugees at Caloundra, Queensland on Wedensday.

People smuggler is jailed after he was caught trying to sneak an Iraqi man through the Channel Tunnel in his boot

19/01/17 17:49

Ibrahim Erkal (pictured), 34, from Swindon in Wiltshire, claimed he had been in Paris for a two-day 'sightseeing trip' when suspicious Border Force officers stopped his Mercedes.

ISIS fighters bring death to Mosul from beyond the grave: Fanatics are overthrown... but their rotting bodies are spreading lethal disease

19/01/17 09:42

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Experts have warned of the threat of disease being spread by contaminated water, after Iraqi forces announced they were in 'full control' of eastern Mosul.

'It will become a ghetto': Plan to place half of all Syrian and Iraqi refugees in just one Sydney suburb slammed as it is claimed they 'won't assimilate'

17/01/17 10:27

Social commentator Prue MacSween slammed the government's decision to house over 6,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees within one Sydney council, saying the area will turn into a 'ghetto.'

More than HALF of Australia's 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to be settled in one area of Sydney

17/01/17 07:49

An area in southwest Sydney with high crime and unemployment will be settling half of the Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming to Australia. Fairfield City Council was home to Vietnamese boat people.

ISIS is increasingly modifying home drones to drop bombs - and US troops say they now see them in Mosul every DAY

16/01/17 16:54

Social media posts have revealed that ISIS have modified drones to drop bombs. Coalition air forces have hit ISIS-made drones and drone production sites in both Syria and Iraq.