Iraqi national Ali B. is on trial for the murder of 14-year-old Susanna F. The case has fueled a broader debate about asylum practices in Germany, particularly for individuals who have committed crimes.

It's been a year since Iraqi troops retook Mosul from the so-called Islamic State. As IS fighters retreated, they left a legacy of booby traps and suicide belts that threaten the safety of returning citizens. DW's Birgitta Schülke reports from Mosul.

A nearly six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan was lifted by Iraqi authorities, according to a statement from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

An increasing number of Syrian and Iraqi refugees are fleeing through Turkey, across the Black Sea, to Romania. The coast guard has already rescued a number of people stranded at sea. Romania fears the Black Sea may become a new refugee route.

Iraqi military captures Hawija from Islamic State.

Iraqi forces enter Al Jazeera neighborhood in Tal Afar

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the murder conviction of an ex-Blackwater security guard and ordered three of his former colleagues to be re-sentenced in the high-profile prosecution stemming from the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.

Islamic State claims responsibility for a suicide attack that targeted the Iraqi embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul, the group's Amaq news agency says.

Iraqi forces seize more ground in Mosul from Islamic State.

Iraqi forces began storming the Islamic State-held Old City of Mosul on Sunday, an assault they hope will be the last in the eight-month campaign to seize the militants' stronghold.

Iraqi federal police blow up large IS weapons cache.

Iraqi forces push towards Mosul's Old City.