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Countless bodies, ruins and questions remain as the last ISIS fighters are driven from Mosul. The Iraqi government declared the city liberated on Monday, even though there were still ISIS fighters in the city.

A week after the Iraqi government declared victory over ISIS in Mosul, there's still fighting and ruins engulfing the dead. Now reporters are banned from the area where the worst fighting took place.

In an interview with NPR, longtime Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani says his people are re-evaluating their close alliance with the U.S. after the U.S. didn't back the failed independence push that led to his resignation.

Power has shifted again in one of Iraq's most ancient and pivotal cities — Kirkuk. Kurds have recently been on top there but now Arab leaders are in charge and residents are tense as they look ahead.

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai met with girls victimized by ISIS and encouraged them to overcome violence the way she did. Her trip to Iraq happened as she turned 20.

After Secretary of State Pompeo went to Iraq to encourage the country to stop trading with Iran, an Iranian delegation arrived for a trade conference. The countries are deeply enmeshed in business.

A U.S. major general tours a remote outpost of troops along the Iraq-Syria border, where U.S. Marines and soldiers fire into Syria to hit ISIS targets and help secure the relative calm in Iraq.

It's been several years since a U.S. commander has stepped foot in downtown Baghdad. But this past week, one U.S. Marine general walked the city streets with his Iraqi counterparts.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death has been met with some joy but also some skepticism in Mosul, where he declared the start of the caliphate.

The U.S. military is clarifying its mission in Syria after President Trump's on-again, off-again vows to pull them out. For now they're guarding oil fields but there's renewed violence in the region.