Poverty, corruption, unemployment and an increasingly angry population with sectarian divisions bubbling underneath the surface all contributed to the IS takeover of Mosul five years ago.

Noting that nearly half a million people have fled Mosul since the start of military operations to retake the city from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) terrorists, a senior ...

Its Shia population, including a large number of ethnic ... The Iraqi government was expected to recapture the town from IS before heading to Mosul in October 2016, and was criticised by local ...