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Mosul encloses the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh – once the largest city in the world – on its east side. Mosul is considered among the larger and more historically and culturally significant cities of the Arab world. Due to Mosul's strategic location, it has traditionally served as a hub of international commerce ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Mosul, city, capital of Ninawa governorate, northwestern Iraq. It is the second largest city in Iraq and the chief commercial center of the northwestern portion of the country. Mosul encircles the ancient city of Nineveh, and it reached its political zenith under the Zangid dynasty in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Jul 20, 2022 · Five years after the liberation of Mosul, this iconic city in Iraq is on the path to reconstruction. The restoration of emblematic landscape and monuments of this thousand-year-old city is underway, leaving the devastation of violence and occupation in the past.
Jul 9, 2022 · Much of Mosul’s historic center, on the right bank of the Tigris river, was destroyed by the U.S.-led coalition’s artillery while the Islamic State detonated a number of key sites.
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Maṣlawī Arabic: al-Mōṣul, Assyrian: ܢܝܢܘܐ Ninaweh, Kurdish: Mosul/Ninawa, Turkish: Musul) is a city in Iraq's Northwestern region, and is the country's second largest city by population.
Apr 2, 2019 · It has been almost two years since the jihadist group Islamic State was defeated in Iraq's second city of Mosul following a battle that left thousands of civilians dead.
Jul 10, 2017 · The battle for Mosul was a huge military operation to recapture Iraq's second largest city from so-called Islamic State (IS). Mosul fell to IS in June 2014, with IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi...
Mar 14, 2022 · The iconic 12th Century mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul is being rebuilt after ISIS nearly destroyed it five years ago. It's now well under reconstruction — a symbol of the city's comeback.
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ, romanized: Māwṣil) is a city in the north of Iraq. Under the Ottoman Empire it was the capital of northern Iraq. More than a million people lived there when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquered it in 2014.
Mosul was devastated and the city was left in ruins. Therefore, in February 2018, UNESCO launched the flagship initiative “Revive the Spirit of Mosul” as a response to the recovery of one of Iraq's iconic cities.
