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Mosul (then the Assyrian town of Mepsila, founded by the former inhabitants out of the ruins of their former capital) later succeeded Nineveh as the Tigris bridgehead of the road that linked Assyria and Anatolia with the short-lived Median Empire and succeeding Achaemenid Empire (546–332 BC), where it was a part of the geopolitical province ...
Interactive Syria and Iraq map with current Mosul situation; ISIS news map; CNN report – 28 hours: Leading the Mosul attack, under fire, then trapped; Map of all restored Mosul city districts – with timeline notes attached for each district, published by Google Maps; Ivor Prickett (1 August 2017). "In Mosul, Revealing the Last ISIS Stronghold".
Al-Bilawi blew himself up, and Gharawi hoped it would prevent an attack. [25] At 2:30 in morning, ISIL convoys of pickup trucks, each truck carrying four fighters, entered Mosul by shooting at the city's checkpoints. Though Mosul's first line of defense was thought to contain 2,500 soldiers, Gharawi says that "reality was closer to 500".
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 ...
Interactive Syria and Iraq map with current Mosul military situation; ISIS news map; CNN report – 28 hours: Leading the Mosul attack, under fire, then trapped, November 2016; Map of all restored Mosul city districts – with timeline notes attached for each district, published by Google Maps; Ivor Prickett (1 August 2017).
Some destroyed or stolen works date back to 5000 BC and include "Iraq newspapers dating to the early 20th century, maps and books from the Ottoman Empire, and book collections contributed by about 100 of Mosul's establishment families". The stated goal was to destroy all non-Islamic books. [71]
An attack by ISIL on villages north of the town was repelled, with 40 militants being killed while no casualties were reported among Iraqi security personnel. [ 177 ] Oil fires burn near Qayyarah, Iraq months after ISIL left behind a trail of destruction during their withdrawal toward Mosul.
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."