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Iraqi forces have entered the city of Mosul for the first time since the summer of 2014, officials say.

Units of the ninth armored division are now inside the city, having raided the neighborhood of Al Intisar, CNN quotes Iraq Ministry of Defense's Spokesperson Brig Gen Tahsin Ibrahim as saying.

Iraqi policemen listen to a briefing inside a military base in the capital Baghdad, on June 11, 2014, after the declaration of a state of emergency by the government. - Photo: Al-Alam

For the last couple of weeks, the Iraqi forces have been trying hard to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) terrorists.

A bomb-laden vehicle driven by a suicide bomber from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has exploded in mid-air, moments after being hit by a roadside bomb near Kirkuk, a newly-released video purportedly shows.

On June 10, 2014, the notorious “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) took over Mosul, a key city in northern Iraq, with a swift conquest that caught many off guard.

An interview of Novinite.com with Mohamed Khalaf, an Iraqi-born journalist and correspondent in Bulgaria of a Kuwaiti newspaper, on the Sunni militant group called Islamic State (IS) acting in Iraq and Syria.

Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by US warplanes pressed a counter-offensive against jihadists Monday after retaking Iraq's largest dam alongside federal forces, as the United States and Britain stepped up their military involvement.
      

Islamic State militants seized four small oilfields when they swept through north Iraq last month and are now selling crude oil and gasoline from them to finance their newly declared "caliphate".
   

Every disaster creates opportunities for somebody. If the Kurds of Iraq play their cards right, they could finally end up with the borders they want, fully recognised by a government in Baghdad that has been saved by Kurdish troops.

Islamist fighters have managed to take over the Iraqi towns of Saadiya and Jalawla, days after Mosul and Tikrit fell into their hands.

A day after Iranian President Hasan Rouhani called on Turkey to jointly fight against regional extremist terrorism for the stability of both countries and of the Middle East region, jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, including Mosul, and were heading toward the province of Salahaddin, on the road to Baghdad.