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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 ...
Module:Location map/data/Iraq Mosul is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Mosul. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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.
In September 2004 the 167th Corps Support Group, a New Hampshire Army Reserve unit, was deployed to Ibrahim Khalil to monitor the supplies being shipped from supply centers in northern Turkey to coalition forces in Iraq. [3] On 6 December 2015 the border was crossed by ca. 3,000 [4] Turkish soldiers, heading to the Mosul countryside.
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.
A map showing the administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire in 1317 Hijri, 1899 Gregorian, Including the Vilayet of Mosul and its Sanjaks. Map of subdivisions of Mosul Vilayet in 1907. Sanjaks of the vilayet and their capitals: [5] Sanjak of Mosul, Mosul; Sanjak of Shahrizor [6] (later renamed Sanjak of Kirkuk), [7]: 190 Kirkuk
British and Turkish officials met in 1924 but were unable to determine a mutually satisfactory border, and the matter was referred to the League of Nations. [3] In October 1925 the League proposed a border (the ‘Brussels line’) that was essentially the same as that of the northern limits of the old Mosul Vilayet.
Iraq has a network of highways connecting it from the inside among the Iraq provinces and to the outside neighboring countries: Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. When Saddam Hussein visited the United States in the 1980s, he was impressed by the size and infrastructure of the highway system. He ordered his engineers to build ...