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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.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mosul, Iraq ... 1926 - Mosul becomes part of the Kingdom of Iraq per League of Nations ruling. 1947 ...
Mosul District (Arabic: قضاء الموصل) is a district in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Its administrative center is the city of Mosul. Other settlements include Al-Qayyarah, Al-Shurah, Hamam al-Alil, Al-Mahlaah, and Hamidat. The district is predominantly Sunni Arab, with minorities of Assyrians, Turkmen and Kurds located in the city of Mosul.
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.
The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s ...
Governorates of Iraq map Iraq ... City or Town Governorate 1987 Census 2009 Estimate 2018 Estimate [1] 1 Baghdad: Baghdad: 3,841,268 5,521,242 6,719,477 2 Mosul: Nineveh:
By Ziad al-Sinjary (Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group seized control of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, putting security forces to flight in a spectacular show of strength against the Shi ...
Before 1976, it was called Mosul Province and included the present-day Dohuk Governorate. [8] The second largest city is Tal Afar, which has an almost exclusively Turkmen population. [9] An ethnically, religiously and culturally diverse region, it was partly conquered by ISIS in 2014. [10] Iraqi government forces retook the city of Mosul in ...