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The opening of the University of Mosul in 1967 enabled the education of many in the city and surrounding area. Mosul, 1968 Iraqi police, U.S. soldiers patrol neighborhood in Mosul, March 19, 2007. After Iraq's 1991 uprisings, Mosul was included in the northern no-fly zone imposed and patrolled by the United States and Britain between 1991 and 2003.
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]
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 ...
Mosul Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة الموصل; Ottoman Turkish: ایالت موصل, romanized: Eyālet-i Mūṣul) [2] was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 7,832 square miles (20,280 km 2). [3] The city of Mosul was largely inhabited by Kurds. [4]
In 2003, Mosul's Christian population stood at around 50,000. Many of them fled after IS seized control of Mosul in 2014. Today, less than 20 Christian families remain as permanent residents in the city. Others who fled to Irbil and other surrounding areas have not returned to their homes in Mosul but commute there for church on Sundays.
MOSUL (Reuters) - When Islamic State seized the five-star Ninewah Oberoi Hotel in east Mosul it replaced wealthy Iraqi patrons with another kind of elite -- foreign fighters and suicide bombers ...
The waters of the Mosul dam – located near Kemune in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region – relinquished an ancient city, a team of German and Kurdish archaeologists announced May 30 in a news ...
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 ...