The U.S. believes the move will help counter the Islamic State group, which has captured major cities in Iraq and Syria in recent months.
Leaders from Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition will meet in Paris on Tuesday to devise a strategy to retake Ramadi from ISIS.
Monday's event comes four days after an anti-Muslim event held outside the mosque drew more than 200 protesters.
Sen. Lindsey Graham announced his candidacy for president Monday. The senator is largely seen as an underdog in the contest and barely registered in a recent poll of Iowa voters.
The Islamic State group commandeered 2,300 armored vehicles when it took Mosul last year, the Iraqi premier says.
Since last June, the group has instituted strict puritanical laws throughout Mosul, a city of 2 million.
The Ministry of Defence says nearly 800 British soldiers are already working in training and support roles in the region.
The leader of a pro-Iranian Shiite militia fighting ISIS proposes a strategy for defeating ISIS, not just liberating Ramadi.
The removal of Russian and Iranian advisers points to the possibility the battle is turning against the regime.
ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Libyan town. Military leaders responded by calling for military mobilization.
ISIS considers Hamas a "heretical" organization and accuses it of conducting a war on Islam.
Jeb Bush said in his brother's zeal to protect the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, George W. Bush failed to reign in congressional spending.
The 46-year-old son of the vice president died Saturday of brain cancer.
The militants urged Saudi nationals to attack the kingdom’s Shiite population.
"Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known."
ISIS destroyed the Syrian regime's infamous Tadmor prison.
Priced at $130 million, the weapons should help the UAE better counter the threats by the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Following the attacks, the country increased the security around other hotels in the city that are popular among foreigners.
Through its 'Katibah Nusantara' unit, the Islamic State group is allegedly attempting to target countries in the Malay Archipelago, according to a Singapore-based analyst.
Australian police said five of the 12 women, aged between 18 and 29, successfully joined the Islamic State group in Syria.
The rise of militants supporting ISIS in Gaza has made Hamas into an unlikely but important counterterrorism player.
Istanbul’s transgender community is flourishing, but Turkish laws force people to find unsafe, illegal shortcuts to change gender.