Mosul in Iraq is seeing the most intensive fighting yet since the offensive to retake the city from ISIL militants began more than two weeks ago.

It is a symbolic victory in the battle to retake control of the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIL militants.

As the fight for Mosul rages on, leaders outside Iraq are discussing the possible, potentially damaging, consequences of retaking the city from ISIL.

An Iraqi and Kurdish led offensive to reclaim Mosul from ISIL militants has begun.

A court in Britain has jailed the country’s best-known radical Muslim cleric for five and a half years for urging support of ISIL .