Mosul in a sentence

MOSUL: It used to take Ahmad Meyssar just a few minutes to reach his university across a bridge over the river Tigris in Iraq’s Mosul.

Students on the University of Mosul campus in Mosul, Iraq, on January 21, 2018.

In 2014, days before IS fighters seized swathes of northern Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul left the city, salvaging a trove of centuries-old Syriac manuscripts from the invading jihadists.

In 2017, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi over the Islamic State militant group in Mosul after months of fighting.

Kirby said the U.S. shared experiences with urban warfare in places like Fallujah and Mosul in Iraq, and that the Israelis were “receptive” to those lessons learned.

Zelikan military base, which is the headquarters of Turkish forces in the east of Mosul, has been the target of rocket attacks many times in recent months.

Regarding Mosul, estimates vary widely.

The year before Canadian troops deployed for the training mission, Human Rights Watch accused the U.S.-trained Iraqi 16th Division of extra-judicial killings and other abuses during the battle to retake Mosul, the country's second largest city.

This rate is significantly than that of other asymmetric battles, such as the 2016 Battle of Mosul, in which Iraq and allied forces defeated the forces of the Islamic State.

Amid Mosul’s disfigured landscape, its committed players still train on the stadium’s dusty pitch a couple of times a week.

He urges his young players to train hard, as they practice in a dusty field in Mosul’s al-Bakr neighborhood in front of a small but loyal following of fans.

Mosul filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo and Mohamed Al-Daradji talk about producing the real-life war story as a movie for Netflix.

Mosul was underway, and the threats from Raqqa were continuing to increase even as the Islamic State strengthened its defense positions week after week.

SOS Chretiens d’Orient has been working with persecuted Christians in Iraq since 2014 when Islamic State jihadists overran the province of Mosul, displacing tens of thousands of minority Christians and Yazidis.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul in mid-2014.

A displaced woman shows her refugee identification paper in Qayyara, south of Mosul, Iraq.

Amnesty International has carried out in-depth field investigations, interviews with survivors and witnesses in both Raqqa and Mosul, documenting hundreds of cases of civilians killed in Coalition strikes.

And what's more, it deliberately killed civilians as they tried to flee Mosul.

An Iraqi soldier frisks a displaced Iraqi man at a temporary camp in the compound of the closed Nineveh International Hotel in Mosul on 16 June 2017 which was recovered by Iraqi troops from Islamic State group fighters earlier in the year.

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