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Following the fall of Mosul, an estimated half a million people escaped on foot or by car during the next two days. [6] Many residents had trusted the Islamic State fighters at first in the city, and according to a member of the UK's Defence Select Committee, Mosul "fell because the [predominantly Sunni] people living there were fed up with the sectarianism of the Shia-dominated Iraqi government."
4–10 June: Mosul taken by forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. [15] June: Mass executions in ISIL occupied Mosul begin. 16–19 August: Battle for Mosul Dam fought near city. 2015 - January: Mosul offensive (2015). 2016 - October: Battle of Mosul (2016–17) begins. [15] 2017 21 June: Great Mosque of al-Nuri destroyed. [16]
Mosul (/ ˈ m oʊ s əl, m oʊ ˈ s uː l / MOH-səl, moh-SOOL; Arabic: الموصل , romanized: al-Mawṣil, pronounced [alˈmawsˤil] ⓘ, locally [ɪlˈmoːsˤɪl]; Kurdish: مووسڵ , romanized: Mûsil; [3] [4] Turkish: Musul; Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ, romanized: Māwṣil [5]) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate.
The Mosul Vilayet [1] (Arabic: ولاية الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت موصل, romanized: Vilâyet-i Musul) was a first-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. It was created from the northern sanjaks of the Baghdad Vilayet in 1878.
The fall of Mosul in Iraq occurred between 4 and 10 June 2014, when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgents, initially led by Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, captured Mosul from the Iraqi Army, led by Lieutenant General Mahdi Al-Gharrawi. On 4 June, the insurgents began their efforts to capture Mosul.
By the end of the first week of American occupation of Mosul, 31 Iraqis had been killed and 150 wounded. [ 3 ] Towards the end of April, 20,000 soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, led by Maj. Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Mosul and assumed responsibility for Ninawa province.
The Mosul question was a territorial dispute in the early 20th century between Turkey and the United Kingdom (later Iraq) over the possession of the former Ottoman Mosul vilayet. The Mosul vilayet was part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of World War I , when it was occupied by Britain.
Qara Saray (قرهسرتي) Qara Saray, meaning “The Black Palace,” was a palace complex in Mosul located on the west bank of the Tigris River.It was built by Badr al-Din Lu’lu (died 1259), mamluk emir of the Zengid dynasty, who ruled what is now northern Iraq during the thirteenth century, and who had a significant long-term impact on the history of Mosul.