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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Large-scale military campaign to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State For other uses, see Battle of Mosul (disambiguation). Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) Part of War in Iraq (2013–2017) Map of the advances by the Iraqi Army in Mosul city during the battle Date 16 October 2016 – 21 ...
Battle of Mosul (1745), a battle between Persian and Ottoman forces, following the 1743 Siege of Mosul; Battle of Mosul (1917) , A series of small battles between Russians and Turks ended mostly indecisively; Battle of Mosul (2004), a battle fought during the Iraq War; Battle of Mosul (2008), part of the 2008 Nineveh campaign of the Iraq War
After seizing control of Mosul, ISIL forces executed an estimated 4,000 Iraqi Security Force prisoners, and dumped their bodies in the single largest known mass grave in Iraq, at the Khafsa Sinkhole. This mass grave was later uncovered during the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017). [14] Insurgents took full control of Tikrit on the evening of 11 ...
U.S. Army infantry from the 325th Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Mosul, 7 March 2017 During the early morning hours of 14 December 2014, U.S. ground forces allegedly clashed with ISIL alongside the Iraqi Army and Tribal Forces near the Ain al-Assad Airbase , west of Anbar , in an attempt to repel them from the base of which includes ...
During the course of the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), an international coalition, primarily composed of the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga, CJTF–OIR, along with the allied Popular Mobilization Forces, Company A, 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), captured Mosul from the Islamic State, which had used Mosul as the capital for the Iraqi half of its "caliphate".
A German Air Force Tornado ECR refuels near Mosul, November 2016 1 November. The operation to enter the city began at dawn on 1 November. The forces began their assault in Mosul's eastern Karama district, with artillery, tank and machine-gun fire on ISIL positions as they prepared the larger push into the city. [95]
An Australian F/A-18 Hornet over Iraq in March 2017 1 March ISIL held areas (grey) in Mosul, as of 1 March 2017. On 1 March, an Iraqi general announced that the Iraqi Army had taken control of the last major road to western Mosul, with the 9th Armoured division coming within a kilometer of Mosul's northwestern entrance known as the "Syria Gate".
25 January Battle situation of Mosul as of 25 January 2017 Iraqi soldiers talk with and are greeted by civilians in eastern Mosul. Col. Khaled al-Jewari, from the Joint Operations Command, told DPA that ISIL executed a qadi (senior judge), along with other combat commanders, for escaping from the battle for eastern Mosul.