In ridding the city of the Islamic State, its health system was gutted, affecting 1.8-million residents
Mosul may no longer be a pillar of Iraq’s identity
There are fears that the extremists will commit more atrocities in an attempt to spread fear as they try to hold on to their last major Iraqi bastion.
Kurdish fighters backed by the US plan to retake Islamic State’s last major stronghold and are closing off escape routes.
In the city of Mosul, out of view of visiting Arab dignitaries next week, al-Qaeda still controls the streets and people still whisper about death.
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/ 27 November 2009
Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul.
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/ 12 October 2008
Nearly 1 000 Christian families have fled their homes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul following a wave of violence against them.
Kidnappers of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop found dead in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had demanded a -million ransom, a senior police official said on Friday. Paulos Faraj Rahho, the archbishop of Mosul, 390km north of Baghdad, was abducted on February 29 after gunmen attacked his car and killed his driver and two guards.
A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside an army recruitment centre in the northern Iraqi town of Rabia, near the Syrian border, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police said. The victims were young men waiting to sign up to join the army, police General Said al-Juburi said.
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/ 26 October 2004
Four car bombs exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, without causing any injuries, but two people were wounded by gunfire, the United States army and local medics said. Car bombs are a favourite tool in a bloody insurgency that has ravaged the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein last year.
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/ 18 October 2004
Two separate car bombs killed six Iraqis and wounded 19 others in the northern city of Mosul, the United States military said on Monday. On Sunday, a car bomb detonated on a Mosul bridge at about 10.30am, killing five Iraq civilians and wounding 15 other people.
At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 26 wounded in a roadside bomb blast and fierce clashes on Wednesday between Iraqi police and insurgents in the main northern city of Mosul, medics and police said. The fighting erupted at about midday local time south-west of Mosul on the west bank of the Tigris River.
A car bomb exploded outside a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 53 others, police said. The blast followed a night of clashes between United States troops and insurgents that left 10 dead and 27 wounded in the troubled city of Fallujah, west of the capital.
The United States military has denied any knowledge of the discovery by Iraqi police of a second body in the Tigris River near the northern city of Mosul. Iraqi reports indicate that the man, described as a Westerner wearing an orange jumpsuit, was found with his throat slit.
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/ 2 February 2004
The death toll in the twin suicide bombings at two Kurdish party offices in northern Iraq has climbed to 67, with 267 others injured, United States military officials said on Monday. The figure was released by military officials meeting with US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.
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/ 16 November 2003
Two Black Hawk helicopters have collided and crashed, killing 17 American soldiers in the United States military’s worst single loss of life since the Iraq war began. As the US death toll in Iraq passed the 400 mark, the Iraqi governing council endorsed a US plan on Saturday that would create a provisional government by June.