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In Egypt, the group controls 910 km 2 of land centered on the small city of Sheikh Zuweid, which represents less than 1% of Egypt's territory. [14] In Nigeria, Boko Haram (at the time an IS affiliate) controlled 6,041 km 2 of territory at its maximum extent in 2014, though most of this area was lost amid military reversals and a split within ...
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.
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 vilayet of Mosul in 1914, with modern borders superimposed. The Mosul question was a territorial dispute in the early 20th century between Turkey and the United Kingdom (later Iraq) over the possession of the former Ottoman Mosul vilayet. The Mosul vilayet was part of the Ottoman Empire until the end of World War I, when
From left to right: Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, King Hussein of Jordan, and Ali Abdullah Salih of Yemen. Egypt–Iraq relations soured in 1990, when Egyptian migrant workers in Iraq faced persecution, harassment and murder by Iraqi veterans because they viewed Egyptians as competitions in the labor market.
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 ...
Distinct Land Borders: Refers to the number of separate geographic boundaries a country shares with its neighbors. A single country may have multiple distinct land borders with the same neighbour (e.g., due to enclaves, exclaves, or disconnected regions). Distinct Land Neighbours: Refers to the number of unique countries a nation borders via land.
By RYAN GORMAN The newest Islamic State video starring kidnapped British journalist John Cantlie takes viewers on a bizarre tour of Mosul, Iraq, while refuting recent claims made in media reports.