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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. Large-scale military campaign to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State For other uses, see Battle of Mosul (disambiguation). Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) Part of War in Iraq (2013–2017) Map of the advances by the Iraqi Army in Mosul city during the battle Date 16 October 2016 – 21 ...
After seizing control of Mosul, IS forces executed an estimated 4,000 Iraqi Security Force prisoners, and dumped their bodies in the single largest known mass grave in Iraq, at the Khafsa Sinkhole. This mass grave was later uncovered during the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017). [14] Insurgents took full control of Tikrit on the evening of 11 June ...
25 January Battle situation of Mosul as of 25 January 2017 Iraqi soldiers talk with and are greeted by civilians in eastern Mosul. Col. Khaled al-Jewari, from the Joint Operations Command, told DPA that ISIL executed a qadi (senior judge), along with other combat commanders, for escaping from the battle for eastern Mosul.
Interactive Syria and Iraq map with current Mosul military situation; ISIS news map; CNN report – 28 hours: Leading the Mosul attack, under fire, then trapped, November 2016; Map of all restored Mosul city districts – with timeline notes attached for each district, published by Google Maps; Ivor Prickett (1 August 2017).
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During the course of the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), an international coalition, primarily composed of the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga, CJTF–OIR, along with the allied Popular Mobilization Forces, Company A, 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), captured Mosul from the Islamic State, which had used Mosul as the capital for the Iraqi half of its "caliphate".
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Two years ago the militants appeared unstoppable as they seized large swathes of Iraq including the major city of Mosul, but in recent months they have been pushed back from some areas.