Mosul

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• SOURCE: Rudaw
  6-21-18
  

  The battle to retake Mosul left heritage sites in tatters

  Many old Islamic, Jewish, and Christian historical sites were damaged.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  12-7-17
  

  Scholar risked everything to tell Islamic State’s secrets

  He stayed anonymous for more than three years, documenting Islamic State’s atrocities and the destruction of his city as the blogger Mosul Eye. Omar Mohammed, now in Europe, is done hiding.

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• SOURCE: Iraqi News
  11-13-17
  

  Islamic State militant sentenced to death for smashing monuments in Mosul

  Abdul Sattar Bir Qadar, spokesperson for the High Judicial Council, said in a statement that the court sentenced the suspect to death “Over conviction for taking part in terrorist crimes including the smashing of monuments in Mosul.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6-24-17
  

  Why did ISIS blow up the mosque in Mosul?

  by Kishwar Rizvi

  It was following a tradition established by Saudi Arabia.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-22-17
  

  Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'

  Iraqi PM denounces levelling of Mosul building where Islamic State leader declared a caliphate three years ago.

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• SOURCE: Al-Fanar Media
  5-26-17
  

  Rebuilding Mosul’s Library Book by Book

  A campaign to restore the holdings of the library of the University of Mosul has received an enthusiastic response since it began three months ago.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  3-10-17
  

  What soldiers found when they came upon the Mosul museum

  Thousands of artifacts had been safely removed before ISIS took over. 

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  2-27-17
  

  Previously untouched 600BC palace discovered under shrine demolished by Isil in Mosul

  The shrine is situated on top of a hill in eastern Mosul called Nebi Yunus - one of two mounds that form part of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh.

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• 1-15-17
  

  What We Lack in Mosul and Syria that We Had in the Civil War

  by Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh

  A clear purpose.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-20-16
  

  Donald Trump Is Wrong on Mosul Attack, Military Experts Say

  They said that Mr. Trump’s armchair generalship revealed a fundamental lack of understanding of Iraqi politics, military warfare, and military history.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  10-18-16
  

  7 Things to Know about Mosul

  by Juan Cole

  The Iraqi government has announced that the campaign to take the large northern city of Mosul back from ISIS. So what is the significance of Mosul as a city?

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• SOURCE: Iraq Crisis/Ihsan Fethi, PhD Iraqi Architects Society
  12-21-15
  

  Now ISIS is destroying gravestones in Mosul

  There are reliable reports that armed groups from ISIS have begun a determined and systematic campaign to destroy all grave stones in all the cemeteries of the city.

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• 3-13-15
  

  Mosul is an Endangered Historic City!

  by Ihsan Fethi

  "There are many lessons to be learnt by the world from this new type of conflict where it involves the high jacking of a historic city by terrorists with fierce disregard for history."

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• SOURCE: Aydınlık (Turkey)
  8-24-14
  

  The Caliphate Brings Trauma

  by Daniel Pipes

  "Declaring the caliphate on June 29 was a major event; and the caliphate is an institution whose time has long passed and, therefore, whose revival bodes much trauma."

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• SOURCE: IraqiCrisis
  7-27-14
  

  ISIS is destroying both Shia and Sunni shrines and buildings in Mosul

  by Lamia Al Gailani Werr

  "After the fundamentalists destroyed all the Shia mosques in Mosul and the other towns, they have now turned to the Sunni shrines."

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• SOURCE: Conflict Antiquities
  7-25-14 (accessed)
  

  CONFIRMED: the Shrine of Jonah/Mosque of Yunus (Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq) has been destroyed

  The many photographs all correspond with each other. This has happened.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment (blog)
  7-20-14
  

  Mosul w/out Christians for First time in 1,900 Years as Radical Fundamentalists Threaten Minorities

  by Juan Cole

  For the first time in nearly 2000 years, there are virtually no Christians in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

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• 6-12-14
  

  ISIS Rampages, the Middle East Shakes

  by Daniel Pipes

  This is the most important event in the Middle East since the Arab upheavals began in 2010.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  6-12-14
  

  Iraq Is Vietnam 2.0 And U.S. Drones Won’t Solve The Problem

  by Leslie H. Gelb

  The problem is the Iraqi government.

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• 6-11-14
  

  The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History

  by Juan Cole

  The fall of Mosul to the radical, extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a set of historical indictments.