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 …

The Battle of Mosul (Arabic: معركة الموصل, Ma'rakat al-Mawṣil) was a major battle initiated by the Iraqi Government forces with allied forces [a] to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State …

The Battle for Mosul was the first large-scale combat operation (LSCO) with U.S. participation since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 2 The coalition’s objective was to recapture the city from...

The Battle of Mosul was fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah.

Jul 10, 2017 · The battle for Mosul was a huge military operation to recapture Iraq's second largest city from so-called Islamic State (IS).

Jan 29, 2017 · More than a hundred thousand soldiers, policemen, and government-sanctioned-militia members were expected to participate in the fight to liberate Mosul, the second-largest …

State massed its army in Mosul and prepared its defenses. 5 Their numbers there ranged between 5,000 and 12,000 soldiers. 6 Conversely, the government of Iraq and the Kurdish …

After a brutal nine-month campaign to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State, Iraqi security forces (ISF) retook Iraq’s second largest city. This battle was the largest conventional land battle...

Sep 15, 2021 · ISIS forces chased ill-prepared, ill-equipped Iraqi army units out of Mosul in just five days and secured the city on June 10, 2014. Mosul became ISIS’s de facto capital city and …

When fighters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria swept across Iraq in the summer of 2014, the largest prize they claimed was the city of Mosul. The jihadists forced the Iraqi...