200 mass graves of thousands of victims of the Islamic State have been found

An alleged ISIS fighter is held in a basement as Iraqi forces continue to press for control of the Old City of Mosul on Monday, July 3rd.

A soldier from the Iraqi Special Forces exchanged fire with Islamic State militants in the Old City on Friday, June 30.

A bomb explodes near the al-Nuri mosque compound on Thursday, June 29. The Iraqi army seized the remains of the great mosque of Al-Nuri. Iraq and the United States have accused ISIS of blowing up the historic mosque.

Members of the Iraqi Federal Police occupy a position as US-led coalition forces advance into the Old City on Wednesday, June 28.

Two boys are comforted after the collapse of their homes during fighting between Iraqi forces and militants in Mosul on Saturday, June 24. They are cousins ​​and said that some of their relatives were still under the rubble.

An Iraqi soldier is helping to transport a girl while residents are fleeing their homes west of Mosul on Friday, May 26.

Displaced Iraqis are scouring the rubble after evacuating their homes in a neighborhood in western Mosul on Wednesday, May 17.

An Iraqi man is trying to extinguish a burning car during fighting in the western Rifai district of Mosul on Tuesday, May 16th.

A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service secures a building as troops head to the western district of Al-Oraibi in Mosul on Sunday, May 14.

A cloud of smoke rises on the front line as the Iraqi Emergency Response Division advances into western Mosul on Saturday, May 6th.

An injured man is being transported to the west of Mosul on Friday, 21 April.

An Iraqi federal police officer is smoking during a break from the battle on Wednesday, April 12.

A member of the Iraqi security forces stands guard in the east of Mosul as smoke rises from the western part of the city controlled by the Islamic State on Friday, April 7.

Iraqis go to a public bath on the southern outskirts of Mosul on Wednesday, April 5th.

The flames spring from an explosion in Mosul during a clash between Iraqi forces and ISIS fighters on Sunday, March 5th.

Mosul residents cross a damaged bridge in the Sukkar district on Saturday, 21 January.

French President Francois Hollande and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, on the right, observe the territory held by the Islamic State during a visit to a military outpost near Mosul on Monday, January 2nd.

A girl participates in a Christmas Day Mass at a church in the predominantly Christian city of Qaraqosh. The churches in the area were heavily damaged by Islamic State militants before the liberation of the city by Iraqi forces during the Mosul offensive.

Iraqi Shiite fighters cross a desert area near the village of Al-Butha al-Sharqiyah, west of Mosul, on Friday, 2 December.

Internally displaced Iraqis who fled the fighting in Mosul watch a civilian drone filming them in al-Khazir camp on Thursday, 1 December.

An Iraqi soldier is looking for Islamic State militants in a house after Iraqi forces retake the village of Al-Qasr on Wednesday, November 30th.

Iraqi soldiers carry a wounded comrade during a battle near the village of Haj Ali on Tuesday, 29 November.

A man cries during the burial of four Iraqi paramilitary fighters killed during fighting in the city of Tal Afar.

Displaced civilians return to the village of Tall Abtah on Friday, 25 November, after Iraqi forces recaptured the village from the Islamic State.

Iraqi civilians sit on the ground in Mosul on 24 November. An Iraqi officer went to the group, demanding to know where the alleged militants of the Islamic State were who had opened fire on troops a few days earlier.

An injured baby is being treated at a field hospital in Mosul on November 15.

A woman cries on Sunday, November 13 after seeing the St. Addai church damaged by Islamic State fighters during the occupation of Keramlis village.

A soldier from the Iraqi Special Forces prays beside a Humvee before his troops head for the Karkukli district in Mosul on November 13th.

A Kurdish fighter from Peshmerga holds a defused bomb party posed by Islamic State militants in Bashiqa, Iraq, on Friday, November 11th.

A member of the Iraqi Special Forces is guarding two suspected Islamic State fighters who were found hidden in a house in Mosul on 11 November.

An Iraqi woman displaced by the war is holding her cat near a checkpoint in the Iraqi village of Shaqouli, east of Mosul, on November 10.

Iraqi troops witness the broadcast Wednesday, November 9th of the acceptance speech of Donald Trump in a house in Arbid, in the suburbs of Mosul on ISIS.

US Marines set up equipment on a coalition basis in Qayyara on November 9th.

A member of the Iraqi forces is investigating a mass grave discovered after coalition forces recaptured the Hamam al-Alil region on Monday, 7 November.

Iraqi children witness the interrogation of a man by a member of the Iraqi army at a base near the Al-Intissar district of Mosul on 7 November.

A civilian man who fled the fighting cuts his beard after reaching an Iraqi army position in Mosul on November 7.

Children play in the debris created by an air strike in Qayyara on Sunday, November 6th.

Women members of the Kurdistan Freedom Party sing while occupying a post near Bashiqa on November 6th.

A baby passed through a fence to his mother in a refugee camp in the Khazir area on Saturday, November 5th.

On November 5th, people line up to receive food in a refugee camp in the Khazir area. Thousands of people are sheltering in camps set up for internally displaced people.

Iraqi soldiers pass near a bridge destroyed during an air strike in Qayyara on November 5th.

Iraqi soldiers patrol an alley on the outskirts of Mosul on Friday, 4 November.

An alleged member of the Islamic State is arrested at a checkpoint near Bartella, Iraq, on 4 November.

Iraqi families travel in a truck to be transferred to camps on Thursday, November 3rd.

An Iraqi Special Forces soldier is looking for the location of a sniper of the Islamic State in Gogjali on November 1st.

A man fleeing the village of Bazwaya carries a white flag as he arrives at a checkpoint on 1 November.

An Iraqi soldier is being treated after being injured in clashes with ISIS fighters near Bazwaya on October 31.

An Iraqi soldier sails through a broken windshield as coalition forces advance on Bazwaya on October 31.

Archbishop Yohanna Petros Mouche, in the center, celebrates mass in the liberated city of Qaraqosh on Sunday, October 30th.

On 30 October, children play in an IDP camp near Kirkuk, Iraq. More than 600 families from Tel Afar, a city in western Mosul, have lived in this camp since the Islamic State took control of the area in 2014.

Displaced families are seen on the road near Qayyara on Saturday, October 29th.

US soldiers are sheltering in a bunker after a mortar alarm was fired at a coalition air base in Qayyara on Friday, October 28th.

Women and children are afflicted by the death of a family member in a Qayyara cemetery damaged by the Islamic State on October 27.

The residents of Qayyara are waiting for the distribution of food and water rations on October 26th. Local water sources have been contaminated by the burning of oil and sulfur.

Iraq's anti-terrorist forces are moving towards the positions of the Islamic State in Tob Zawa on 25 October.

Soldiers give first aid to an injured boy in Tob Zawa on 25 October.

The Kurdish forces of Peshmerga take position as they begin to head to the villages of Imam Reza and Tizxirab of Bashiqa district on Sunday, October 23rd.

Iraqi forces are distributing fruits in the village of al-Khuwayn, south of Mosul, after having resumed at the Islamic State on 23 October.

Kurdish security forces on Saturday (October 22nd) arrest an alleged member of the Islamic State in the eastern suburbs of Kirkuk.

A member of the Iraqi forces helps a man push a car on arrival at a refugee camp in Qayyara on October 22.

Cartridges of used bullets strew the street around the Jihad Hotel, where ISIS militants fought Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk on Friday, October 21st.

General Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, who heads the Iraqi counter-terrorism forces, is in Bartella on October 21st, after the city's recovery.

Peshmerga fighters monitor a village during an assault near Bashiqa on Thursday, October 20th.

Iraqi forces are heading to the front lines near Qayyara on Tuesday, October 18th.

A Peshmerga fighter is taking a look from an underground tunnel in the liberated town of Badana on October 18th. ISIS fighters have built tunnels under residential streets to escape air strikes.

Kurdish security forces take up positions near the villages controlled by the Islamic State on Monday, 17 October.

The smoke emerges from a car bomb suicide attack perpetrated by the Islamic State in the village of Bedene on October 17th.

Members of the Iraqi coalition gather around a fire on Zardak Mountain before the offensive.

Peshmerga's forces unfold in the dark near Wardak village early October 17.