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    The Green Mosque (Arabic: جامع الخضر) is a historic mosque located in Mosul, Iraq. The mosque dates back to the 12th century and witnessed many renovations...
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  • Green Mosque may refer to: al-Khadra Mosque, Nablus, Palestinian territories Green Mosque, Balkh, Afghanistan Green Mosque, Mosul, Iraq Green Mosque, Kigali...
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    Mosul (/ˈmoʊsəl, moʊˈsuːl/ MOH-səl, moh-SOOL; Arabic: الموصل‎, romanized: al-Mawṣil, pronounced [alˈmawsˤil] , locally [ɪlˈmoːsˤɪl]; Kurdish: مووسڵ‎,...
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    of Jirjis was located inside a Quraysh cemetery in Mosul. In 1393, Tamerlane commissioned a mosque to be built at the site, and a dome over the alleged...
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    blew up the 12th century Green Mosque in central Mosul. In March 2015, IS bulldozed to the ground the Hamu Al-Qadu Mosque in Mosul, dating back to 1880....
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    This is a list of mosques in Iraq. There are 7,000 Sunni mosques and 3,500 Shia mosques in Iraq as a whole. According to the Office of Waqf and Sunnah...
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  • 1170 - Great Mosque of al-Nuri construction begins. 1182 - Mosul besieged by forces of Saladin during rule of Izz ad-Din Mas'ud. 1185 - Mosul again besieged...
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    The Ibn Bunnieh Mosque (Arabic: جامع ابن بنيه), also known as the Hajj al-Bunnieh Mosque (Arabic: جامع الحاج بنية) is a mosque in Baghdad located in al-Karkh...
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  • Omar Mohammed (category University of Mosul alumni)
    musician. He is best-known for creating Mosul Eye, an online news blog through which he documented life in the city of Mosul when it was occupied by the Islamic...
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  • under the green dome of the mosque. The mausoleum was destroyed by ISIL in 2014 as part of a plan to destroy historic shrines in Tal Afar, Mosul and Nineveh...
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  • Council (MSC) and its Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). The capital of Ninawa province, Mosul, forms the northern tip of the "Sunni Triangle" and lies on a sectarian...
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  • (خانقين) Kirkuk (ܟܪܟܘܟ) (كركوك) Al Kut (الكوت) Al Miqdadiyah (المقدادية) Mosul (الموصل) (Ninawa ܢܝܢܘܐ) An Najaf (النجف) An Nasiriyah (الناصرية) Al-Qa'im...
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    Elias Mar Oraha Monastery Rabban Hormizd Monastery Al-Aqiser Mosques and shrines of Mosul "ماذا حل بـ "مسكنتة" في الموصل القديمة!". Iraq Media Platform...
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    took place on April 22, 2007, in Mosul, in northern Iraq. At around 2PM (GMT+3), a bus carrying workers from the Mosul Textile Factory en route to Bashiqa...
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    Isa Madrasa in Mardin, dating from 1385. In Mosul, the Zengid ruler Nur al-Din built the al-Nuri Mosque (1148 and 1170–1172), of which only the original...
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    Imam Ali Shrine (category Imam Ali Mosque)
    included a green dome. The Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil flooded the site in 850, but in the 10th century Abu'l-Hayja, the Hamdanid ruler of Mosul and Aleppo...
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    him as their leader. On 24 July, ISIL blew up the Mosque and tomb of the Prophet Yunus (Jonah) in Mosul, with no reported casualties. Residents in the area...
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    destroyed the mosque containing the tomb as part of a campaign to destroy religious sanctuaries it deemed to be idolatrous. After Mosul was taken back...
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  • Retrieved 2009-05-23. Joshua Partlow; Saad Al-Izzi (2006-07-12). "From Baghdad Mosque, a Call to Arms". The Washington Post. p. A08. Archived from the original...
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    near north Baghdad mosque kills 3 Shiite worshippers. October 22: A car bombing by al-Qaeda killed four people and wounded three in Mosul. October 23: 9 people...
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    (in May 2015) Ramadi, leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar. Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh Governorate, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk...
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  • attacks on Christians in Mosul was a series of attacks which targeted Iraqi Christians in Mosul, Iraq. The Christians of Mosul, who were already targeted...
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  • CIMIC House Battle of Samarra (2004) Second Battle of Fallujah Battle of Mosul (2004) Lake Tharthar raid Battle of Abu Ghraib Battle of Al-Qa'im (2005)...
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  • map of Iraq showing the Euphrates & Tigris rivers as well as the Great Mosque of Samarra and the head of a purebred Arabian horse as a watermark. In 2018...
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    forcing ISIL forces to withdraw, and on 18 November, the anti-terrorism force Mosul Battalion entered the refinery for the first time since June. However, this...
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    horses are called green in Arabic. The mosque of Nabi Jurjis, which was restored by Timur in the 14th century, was located in Mosul and supposedly contained...
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    nationalists in Iraq. In 1959, Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi led an uprising in Mosul against Qasim. The uprising was crushed by the government forces. Qasim...
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    regional empires and tribal alliances. Iraq was divided into three vilayets: Mosul Province Baghdad Province Basra Province In the 16th century, the Portuguese...
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    Jordanian embassy Canal Hotel Imam Ali mosque bombing Baghdad October 2003 2004 Erbil 2004 Ashura massacre Basra 2004 Mosul 2004 2004 church bombings Baghdad...
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    success which the British did not deny. Where the British oil pipeline from Mosul reaches tidewater, "Ten big Italian bombers, flying at great altitude from...
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