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Former Ottoman Mosul Vilayet became the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq, but Mosul remained the provincial capital. Mosul in 1932. The leaning minaret of Great Mosque of al-Nuri gave the city its nickname "the hunchback" (الحدباء al-Ḥadbāˈ). Mosul's fortunes revived with the discovery of oil in the area, from the late 1920s onward. It ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mosul, Iraq This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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.
Hasan Pasha of Mosul ? Mehmed Pasha of Mosul ? Süleyman Pasha ? Mehmed Amin Pasha ? Mahmud Pasha ? Abdurrahman Pasha ? Ahmed Pasha ? Osman Pasha ? Naman Pasha ?–1831; Omari Pasha 1831–1833; Yahya Pasha 1833–1834; Injal Pasha 1835–1840? 1840–1844; Sherif Pasha 1844–1845; Tayyar Pasha 1846; Esad Pasha 1847; Vechihi Pasha 1848; Kâmil ...
Historic buildings in Mosul, including churches and mosques, are being reopened following years of devastation resulting from the Iraqi city's takeover by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group ...
Even if Islamic State is defeated in all of Mosul, the group is expected to stage an insurgency in Iraq, a country that has suffered from dictatorships, wars and sectarian violence that have ...
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."
In the aftermath of the Fall of Mosul, the relics of Saint Thomas were taken from the church by Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul, [5] and transferred to the Monastery of Saint Matthew on 17 June 2014. [8] The church was used as a prison by Islamic State insurgents until the city's liberation in 2017. [5]