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Conquest of Mosul (Nineveh) by Mustafa Pasha in 1631, a Turkish soldier in the foreground holding a severed head. L., C. (Stecher) 1631 -1650 Map of Mosul in 1778, by Carsten Niebuhr What started as irregular attacks in 1517 were finalized in 1538, when Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent added Mosul to his empire by capturing it from his ...
At the height of the occupation the US had 170,000 personnel in uniform stationed in 505 bases throughout all provinces of Iraq. Another 135,000 private military contractors were also working in Iraq. [1] [2] Due to International military intervention against ISIL, personnel have returned to old bases and new bases created.
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 ...
Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate. [8] The second largest city is Tal Afar, which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population. [9] An ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse region, it was partly conquered by ISIS in 2014. [10] Iraqi government forces retook the city of Mosul in ...
Mosul District (Arabic: قضاء الموصل) is a district in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Mosul. Other settlements include Al-Qayyarah, Al-Shurah, Hamam al-Alil, Al-Mahlaah, and Hamidat. The district is predominantly Sunni Arab, with minorities of Assyrians, Turkmen and Kurds located in the city of Mosul.
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".
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).
Mosul Dam (Arabic: سد الموصل), formerly known as Saddam Dam (سد صدام), is the largest dam in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris river in the western governorate of Nineveh , upstream of the city of Mosul .