Download or read book Mosul before Iraq written by Sarah D. Shields and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul--a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.

Download or read book They Will Have to Die Now Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate written by James Verini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2019 “It’s a small miracle that a writer as good as James Verini witnessed the battle of Mosul.… It will take its place among the very best war writing of the past two decades.” —George Packer James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis’ last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year. This “urgent, scalding, hallucinatory work of war reportage” (Patrick Radden Keefe) takes the reader into the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time.

Download or read book Mosul before Iraq written by Sarah D. Shields and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul--a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.

Download or read book Mosul under ISIS written by Mathilde Becker Aarseth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ruled Mosul from 2014-2017 in accordance with its extremist interpretation of sharia. But beyond what is known about ISIS governance in the city from the group's own materials, very little is understood about the reality of its rule, or reasons for its failure, from those who actually lived under it. This book reveals what was going on inside ISIS institutions based on accounts from the civilians themselves. Focusing on ISIS governance of education, healthcare and policing, the interviewees include: teachers who were forced to teach the group's new curriculum; professors who organized secret classes in private; doctors who took direct orders from ISIS leaders and worked in their headquarters; bureaucratic staff who worked for ISIS. These accounts provide unique insight into the lived realities in the controlled territories and reveal how the terrorist group balanced their commitment to Islamist ideology with the practical challenges of state building. Moving beyond the simplistic dichotomy of civilians as either passive victims or ISIS supporters, Mathilde Becker Aarseth highlights here those people who actively resisted or affected the way in which ISIS ruled. The book invites readers to understand civilians' complex relationship to the extremist group in the context of fragmented state power and a city torn apart by the occupation.

Download or read book After Mosul written by Andrea Plebani and published by Ledizioni. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several months of heavy fighting, Mosul has been liberated. However, this will not mark the complete defeat of IS in Iraq, nor will it signal the end of the crisis affecting the country.What will be the fate of the city and of the other liberated territories? Could this victory re-ignite competition among Iraq’s various ethno-sectarian communities? And how could this impact on the Iraqi Kurdistan region? What are the interests and agendas of the main regional and international players?This volume sketches out possible answers through a multi-pronged approach, bringing to light the complexity of the Iraqi scenario and the influence exerted over it by a broad array of internal and external actors.

Download or read book City of Death written by Ephraim Mattos and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frontline witness account of the deadly urban combat of the Battle of Mosul told by former Navy SEAL and frontline combat medic Ephraim Mattos. After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age twenty-four, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians. In City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help share an unforgettable tale of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.

Download or read book Thugs of Mosul written by Demetrios James Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2007, President Bush announced a surge of U.S. forces to Iraq to quell the ongoing insurgency and provide security for the Iraqi people. By June 2007, the aeroscouts of the 4-6 Air Cavalry Squadron deployed for their 15-month rotation in northern Iraq headquartered in Mosul. The Squadron executed combat operations across an area the size of New Jersey with the main effort focused on the violent insurgency in Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. It was one air cavalry troop's mission to secure the ground forces in Mosul; statistically the most violent city in Iraq and a location the insurgency called "the Final Battle."This is a combat story of A Troop "Thugs", 4-6 Air Cavalry Squadron and the courage, leadership, and bonds that join soldiers together. The Thug Scout Weapons Teams fought fiercely for 15 months and relentlessly pursued the insurgents in Mosul. As the success of the surge in Mosul grew, the Squadron joined the Thugs with aeroscouts from Blackdeath Troop and AH-64 Attack Weapons Teams "Wolfpack" to support the U.S. and Iraqi Army forces in finishing the enemy. Over 15 months the aircrews hunted IED emplacers and provided deadly fire support to troops in contact. The Thug's and Squadron's valorous combat actions added volumes to the history of the Air Cavalry.

Download or read book High Tea in Mosul written by Lynne O'Donnell and published by Cyan Communications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n April 2003, as war in Iraq was reaching its climax, Lynne O'Donnell was among the first Western journalists into the northern city of Mosul. At the city's hospital, the senior heart surgeon introduced her to his wife - Pauline Basheer, a middle-aged mother-of-two from Lancashire who has lived in Iraq for almost 30 years. Whilst having tea, they were joined by Pauline's friend, Margaret al-Sharook, who arrived in Iraq in the mid-70s, crossing the border from Turkey with her husband, Zahir, whom she met as a student at Newcastle University. This book tells the extraordinary and emotional story of two Englishwomen, who married Iraqi men they met in Britain and accompanied home to Mosul. There, they assimilated, learned Arabic, raised families and lived within traditional Iraqi family structures. But they also endured the rigours of Saddam's regime- food rationing, thought police, anti-Western discrimination, and almost constant war. As well as revealing life in Iraq as never before, their stories tell an extraordinary personal journey.

Download or read book Mosul and Its Minorities written by Sir Harry Luke and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City Maps Mosul Iraq written by James mcFee and published by Soffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Maps Mosul Iraq is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Mosul adventure :)

Download or read book The Creation of Iraq 1914 1921 written by Reeva Spector Simon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars consider Iraq's history and strategic importance from the vantage point of its residents, neighbors (Iran, Turkey, and Kurdistan), and the Great Powers.

Download or read book Poppies of Iraq written by Brigitte Findakly and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal account of an Iraqi childhood Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis Trondheim. In spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her family’s history as Orthodox Christians in the arab world. Poppies of Iraq is intimate and wide-ranging; the story of how one can become separated from one’s homeland and still feel intimately connected yet ultimately estranged. Signs of an oppressive regime permeate a seemingly normal life: magazines arrive edited by customs; the color red is banned after the execution of General Kassim; Baathist militiamen are publicly hanged and school kids are bussed past them to bear witness. As conditions in Mosul worsen over her childhood, Brigitte’s father is always hopeful that life in Iraq will return to being secular and prosperous. The family eventually feels compelled to move to Paris, however, where Brigitte finds herself not quite belonging to either culture. Trondheim brings to life Findakly’s memories to create a poignant family portrait that covers loss, tragedy, love, and the loneliness of exile. Poppies of Iraq has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as the Aya series by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, Hostage by Guy Delisle, and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. She lives in Montreal.

Download or read book Do This for Love written by David Eubank and published by Fidelis Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As coalition forces, led by brave Iraqi soldiers on the ground, slowly pushed ISIS out, the brutality of the terrorists was turned against thousands of civilians as they fled the fighting. There was no humanitarian template for responding to such ruthlessness; to attempt to help would take total commitment. Birthed in the war zones of Burma to stand with villagers under attack by the Burma Army and provide medical care, relief, and reporting, the Free Burma Rangers came to Mosul with twenty years of war zone experience in the jungle. Led by their founder, David Eubank, a former Ranger and U.S. Special Forces officer, medics, and cameramen from the teams in Burma, other foreign volunteers, and Dave’s wife and three children, came to fill the gap between the frontlines and the humanitarian community. They came living by the conviction that every person counts and the only force that can defeat hate is love. Four team members were wounded and one killed as they lived out that conviction with total commitment. This is their story.

Download or read book Making Victory Count After Defeating ISIS written by Shelly Culbertson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates the current status of humanitarian and stabilization effortsin Iraq and particularly Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s Ninewa Province. The study isbased on exhaustive data collection and review; field visits to Iraq (Erbil, Baghdad, theKhazer displacement camps outside Mosul, and the Qayarah and Hammam al-Alilmilitary bases); and over 50 in-depthinterviews with a range of seniorofficials fromthe Iraqi government, the United States, other officials from the Global CoalitiontoCounterISIS, the United Nations and other multilateral agencies, and implementingnongovernmental organizations.The research team reviewed the humanitarianresponse plan and the stabilization programs, as well as the track recordsof implementationthrough April 2017. Three case studies wereconducted on postcombat stabilizationefforts in Ramadi, Fallujah, and Tikrit. The researchers recognize that humanitarianand stabilization efforts are intrinsically multifaceted and mutually reinforcing, sowe have examined the primary areas of humanitarian activity and pillars of stabilizationto include immediate needs, security, infrastructure and services,and governanceand reconciliation. All of theseactivities in turn willaffect whetherand when civiliansare able to return home.The report focuses on identifying the key gaps in the current effort that willimpedefurther progressand ultimate success. The approach taken by the authors of this report isto identify urgent and primary gaps, which, if filled, willmake possiblethe next steps inrecovery. The report does not detail all of the activities needed to enable Iraqis to return tonormal lives. In reality,the degree of suffering and destruction throughout recent decadesnecessitates a long-termcommitment by Iraq’s government and the international communityto repairing the country. The study team’s analysisfound that the issues that willdetermine whetherMosul is successfully stabilized mirror, in large part, the issues in theother conflict-affectedareas. This is particularly true of the security, governance, and reconciliationissues identified. Moreover, the actions needed are in greatpart dependent onIraq’s national government plans, decisions, and implementation, as well as support andfunding from the international community. Thus, many of the recommendations pertainnot only to Mosul but also to the overall stabilization effort in Iraq, and they require fullengagement by the national government and its supporters. The report concludes that without significantly increased effort by Iraqis, the UnitedStates and other Coalitionofficials, and the United Nations, another wave of violencecould engulf Iraq in a matterof months if stabilization activities are insufficiently robust.The prospect exists that military victory willdislodge the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS), only for Iraq to fall into an extended period of violenceand suffering, if the underlyingcausesof discontent are not addressed and if many of Iraq’s 3 million remaininginternally displaced persons (IDPs) remain unable to return home. Ongoing instabilityin Iraq could in turn precipitate further international refugee flows into other MiddleEastern countries and Europe.The United States, Iraq, and the international community have invested a greatdeal of effort in removing ISIS from the territories of Iraq and Syria. Theseefforts andresources willbe wasted if they fail to consolidate the gains earned through combatby securing the peace through adequate humanitarian and stabilization measures.Theresults achieved thus far demonstrate that success is possiblethrough a moderate butthoughtfully applied set of programs that leverage the willand know-howof local andinternational actors.

Download or read book Mosul written by James Y. Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Chaplain James Pennington arrived in Mosul, Iraq with the 1st Brigade 25th Infantry Division (Stryker). As a Battalion Chaplain, he would minister to the soldiers of the 25th Brigade Support Battalion as they experience the chaos of combat. The deployment covered the time from the infamous Mess Tent Bombing to Iraq's first free elections. This book is a fictional account based on my deployment. The story presents a Army Reserve Chaplain who returns from a deployment now serving as Pastor dealing with the experiences of combat.

Download or read book Mosul after Islamic State written by Karel Nováček and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul’s urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.

Download or read book The Mosul Incident of 1909 written by Nurkan Sever and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 350 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.