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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]
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 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.
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."
The 1959 Mosul Uprising was an attempted coup by Arab nationalists in Mosul who wished to depose the then Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, and install an Arab nationalist government which would then join the Republic of Iraq with the United Arab Republic. Following the failure of the coup, law and order broke down in Mosul, which ...
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.
Destroyed in 2017 during the Battle of Mosul and is currently undergoing extensive restorations. Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque: An Nabi Yunus Sunni 1365 Seljuk: Built over an old Assyrian Christian church. It is believed to contain the remains of Jonah. Demolished in 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Al-Nabi Jirjis Mosque: Old City of ...
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.