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The fight to liberate the Iraqi of city of Mosul from the grasp of ISIS will be tough but successful, and that will ultimately lead to the terror group's defeat, President Barack Obama said Tuesday in his first remarks on the operation.

Iraqi-led forces are pushing decisively toward the Iraqi city of Mosul, soon to become a "street-to-street" battleground in the bloody fight against ISIS.

Syria's first lady Asma al-Assad is standing by her man, telling a Russian TV network that she refused offers to flee the war-torn country with her children.

The three-story house is a shade of vanilla. Its blighted windows and dirt marks show signs of age. It's just another house on the block. Nothing to see. Nothing to witness, except for the neo-Nazis who sometimes visit.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria has warned that "between now and December, if we cannot find a solution, Aleppo will not be there anymore."

As the Iraqi-led coalition move to liberate Mosul, Iraq's second city, the question we should all be asking is this: What will happen next?

CNN's Kristie Lu Stout discusses the battle over Mosul with Pershmerga Brigadier General Sirwan Barzani.

Hundreds of supporters of deceased Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos gathered outside the country's Supreme Court ahead of a ruling on whether to grant a hero's burial to the former president.

Hours after airstrikes killed 14 family members in Aleppo -- including 10 children -- Russia announced it will temporarily stop airstrikes on the rebel-held eastern part of the city.

Airbus' boss believes his firm is poised to pull ahead of Boeing in the neck-and-neck race between aviation industry arch-rivals.

On a road several kilometers outside Mosul on Monday, a convoy of Peshmerga fighters got a taste of the resistance the Iraqi army and police are facing inside the volatile city.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that it's time to stand up and act decisively against state sponsors of terror.

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A UK right wing lawmaker who wound up sprawled unconscious on the floor of the European Parliament after announcing his intention to run for his party's leadership has resigned.

Mulham Ekaidi, Deputy Commander for the Fastaqim Movement rebel group in Aleppo, appeals for anti-aircraft missiles to defend Eastern Aleppo.

Of all the battles in the fight against ISIS, the operation to retake Mosul could prove the most significant.

Two and a half years since 219 Chibok schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, sparking a global outcry and the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, there has finally been some good news. Yesterday, 21 of those girls were reunited with their families in an emotional ceremony in Abuja, embracing the parents they thought they'd never see again.

So it begins: The long-envisioned assault on Mosul, the hugely symbolic Iraqi city where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared ISIS' self-styled "caliphate" more than two years ago.

A major offensive to recapture Mosul from ISIS is under way, as Iraqi-led forces advance on the city, which has been under the terror group's control since June 2014.

The world's oldest panda in captivity died Sunday in Hong Kong's Ocean Park.