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  • Commentary: Turkish-Iranian rivalry heats up over Mosul

    Turkey cites the PKK presence in Sinjar as the cause for its concern, but its calculations go farther to Mosul. Iran, for its part, highlights the need to prevent the revival of the Islamic State, but it, too, has a broader calculus.

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    In Iraq, academics restock Mosul’s barren bookshelves

    For centuries, Mosul was known for its artists and writers, for libraries brimming with books in multiple languages, and for housing Iraq's first printing press. But when the Islamic State group seized the city in 2014, it banned any texts deemed un-Islamic and burned treasured archives.

  • Feral Cities
    Why US troops ‘flattened’ Raqqa and Mosul, and why it may herald an era of ‘feral city’ warfare

    Feral cities are major urban sprawls that lack adequate governance. Warlords, gangs or terror groups occupy a maze of concrete that largely blocks GPS links, radio communications and aircraft sensors. U.S. troops are forced to seek and destroy the enemy in an environment filled with sewage, failing infrastructure and even packs of wild dogs.

  • Iraq
    Iraq Ferry Accident Sets Off Political Upheaval in Mosul

    In a rare show of deference to the anger of Mosul citizens over government abuses, the Iraqi Parliament on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to remove the province’s governor, citing accusations of corruption, self-dealing and negligence.

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    Deadly car bomb hits market near Mosul

    At least four killed in the blast that targeted a crowded market area in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara.

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    Counting the Dead in Mosul

    The urban fighting in Mosul that began on October 16, 2016 was described by U.S. officials as the most intense since World War II.

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    U.S. Army Study Finds Flaws With Military’s Pivotal Assault on Mosul

    It is common for the military to analyze the lessons of its operations, but its examination of the hard-fought Mosul campaign has particular relevance. The battle was a test of a new type of warfare the U.S. has employed in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in recent years—one in which most ground combat is done by indigenous forces with Americans providing advisers and firepower.

  • Iraq
    US helping clear ‘historic’ amount of explosives in Mosul

    On Thursday, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said for the first time that the American military will help contractors and other officials locate unexploded bombs dropped by the coalition. U.S. Embassy officials have asked the coalition to declassify grid coordinates for bombs dropped in Iraq to help clear the explosives.

  • Iraq
    Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism force looks to rebuild after Mosul

    The battle to liberate Iraq’s largest city of Mosul was of a scope and magnitude not seen since World War II, U.S. military officials in Baghdad said. Visible signs of destruction in the city are reminiscent of one of World War II’s bloodiest battles, Stalingrad. Spearheading the operation to liberate to populous city from the grips of Islamic State terrorist was Iraq’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service, or CTS.

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    The onerous cost of rebuilding the city of Mosul

    Initial estimates from the Fund for Iraq Reconstruction and the United Nations for rebuilding the city and its environs were $50 bil­lion, Abbar said.