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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.
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.
Located in the Baghdad International Airport area Camp: Knot: Camp: Korean Village FOB Buzz (Ar Rutbah / H-3 Air Base) Ar-Rutba: Al Anbar: Camp: Lancer: Baiji: Salah ad Din: K-2 Air Base Camp: Leader (Mosul) Camp: Libeccio (Nasiriyah) Dhi Qar: Camp: Liberty (Camp Hurriya) Camp Victory North (Camp Al-Tahreer) Baghdad: Part of the Victory Base ...
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 ...
The ancient city of Nineveh stood where the eastern outskirts of Mosul are today, on the bank of the Tigris river. The Nineveh Plains is the only region in Iraq where a plurality of inhabitants follow Syriac Christianity. Before ISIL invaded Nineveh, Assyrians made up around 40% of the population within the plains. [4]
Mosul Rural area • The river's gate Mosul Museum • Heritage house. ... is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an area of 37,323 km 2 (14,410 sq mi) ...
Even if Islamic State is defeated in all of Mosul, the group is expected to stage an insurgency in Iraq, a country that has suffered from dictatorships, wars and sectarian violence that have ...
Mosul Dam (Arabic: سد الموصل), formerly known as Saddam Dam (سد صدام), is the largest dam in Iraq. It is located on the Tigris river in the western governorate of Nineveh , upstream of the city of Mosul .