Mosul
Americannoun
noun
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In Iraq, he covered the U.S.-backed military campaign to end the Islamic State group’s control of territory, reporting extensively from the frontlines of that war in Mosul and Anbar province.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
"We started by trying first to gather the team - a team composed of people from Old Mosul from different denominations - Christians, Muslims working all together," he says.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025
A U.S.-spearheaded military coalition freed Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from the group’s grip in 2017, and pursued its remnants into eastern Syria.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025
And according to Hoffman, many of those who were radicalized and who had been recruited to fight for the caliphate fled back home just before or after the fall of Mosul.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2024
Many of the fabrics that we know of today came to Europe via the Muslims, and their names still show their origins: damask from Damascus, muslin from Mosul, gauzes from Gaza.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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