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It takes many, many forms." Asaqa said through efforts like this program he hopes more refugees will be helped. "I hope it motivates people to send more stethoscopes, pencils and books [for example] overseas," he said. In Iraq, Asaqa, 36, attended the...
People inspect a damaged house at the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed several people outside the northern city of Mosul on... View Photo »
When the US withdrew from this triangle which is Diyala, Salahuddin, Anbar and Mosul ... a gap was left behind ... Al-Qaeda has redeployed in the area ... Al-Qaeda is present, it appears and disappears and carries out operations, attacks and retreats. It's a guerrilla war, but they are no longer able to...
A weapons dealer who operates in Anbar, who said he goes by the alias Ahmed al-Masri, said, Five months ago I was told that the Syrian brothers are in need of weapons. I started to buy the weapons from the same guys that I previously sold to the...
Now a much clearer picture of the danger of this conflict evolves and it becomes clear that Assad's claims of foreign terrorist involvement are true. The fighters and weapons “are being smuggled from Mosul through the Rabia crossing to Syria, as...
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed several people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday,... View Photo »
Mosul (Arabic: الموصل al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: Mûsil, Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nîněwâ, Turkish: Musul) is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of Ninawa Governorate. It stands on both banks of the Tigris River, with five bridges linking the two sides, some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Full Article
Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed several people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the...
View Photo »Iraqi soldiers gather at the site of a bomb attack near the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 16, 2012. A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex for displaced Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding...
View Photo »Iraqi soldiers gather at the site of a bomb attack near the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad January 16, 2012. A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex for displaced Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least nine people and wounding...
View Photo »Iraqi army soldiers examine explosive materials taken from a defused car bomb after a blast occurred near the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, January 16, 2012. A car bomb exploded inside a residential complex for displaced Shi'ite Muslims in the Iraqi city of Mosul...
View Photo »Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (362 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed a number of people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the...
View Photo »FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2007 file photo, U.S. Army soldiers from Demon Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division react after coming under fire, leaving one soldier wounded, right, in western Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. In...
View Photo »People inspect the scene of two car bombs in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Police and hospital officials in Mosul said two car bombs exploded in quick succession, killing and wounding number of people. At least one of the bombs...
View Photo »Iraqi children climb on the statue of Kurdish writer Ibn al-Mustawfi as they pose for pictures at the entrance to the citadel of the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the fourth largest in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, on November 5, 2011.
View Photo »Iraqis wonder in the City Park in the center of the northern city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the fourth largest in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, on November 5, 2011. More than one million people have visited the autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq -- a...
View Photo »Tourists look at a statue of Kurdish writer Ibn al-Mustawfi at the entrance to the citadel in the northern city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the fourth largest in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, on November 5, 2011. More than one million people have visited the...
View Photo »An Iraqi man walks past a Kurdish flag in the northern Iraqi multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, 240 kms north of the capital Baghdad on December 23, 2011. Iraq's Christians, markedly fewer in number following attacks on their minority community, are increasingly fearful in the face of a rise...
View Photo »Iraqi policemen patrol in a market in the northern Iraqi multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, 240 kms north of the capital Baghdad on December 23, 2011. Iraq's Christians, markedly fewer in number following attacks on their minority community, are increasingly fearful in the face of a rise in...
View Photo »An Iraqi policeman stands guard outside a Chaldean church in the northern Iraqi multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, 240 kms north of the capital Baghdad on December 23, 2011. Iraq's Christians, markedly fewer in number following attacks on their minority community, are increasingly fearful in...
View Photo »Iraqi Kurdish walk with their lit torches through the Kurdish town of Akra in Iraq's Mosul region, 500 kms north of Baghdad, during celebrations of the Noruz spring festival on March 20, 2011. The Persian new year, which coincides with the vernal (Spring) equinox, is a Zoroastrian...
View Photo »U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (front, C) walks alongside Major-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq (front, L), commander of the Ninewah Operations Command, and Major-General Mark Hertling (R), commander of Multi-National Division-North, upon McCain's arrival in...
View Photo »A policeman stands guard at the site of a bomb attack in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad June 11, 2011. Two car bombs exploded in quick succession in a central street of the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday, killing six people and injuring 60, police and...
View Photo »MOSUL, IRAQ - APRIL 08: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates talks with reporters after meeting with soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, while visiting Camp Marez April 8, 2011 in Mosul, Iraq. Gates has been touring Iraq and...
View Photo »MOSUL, IRAQ - APRIL 08: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (L) poses for photographs with troops from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas while visiting Camp Marez April 8, 2011 in Mosul, Iraq. Gates has been touring Iraq and meeting with...
View Photo »MOSUL, IRAQ - APRIL 08: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is followed by Gen. Lloyd Austin, commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq, as they climb aboard a C-17 airplane after meeting troops from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas...
View Photo »MOSUL, IRAQ - APRIL 08: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates gives his 'challenge coin' while shaking hands and posing for photographs with soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas while visiting Camp Marez April 8, 2011 in Mosul,...
View Photo »MOSUL, IRAQ - APRIL 08: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (C) delivers remarks and answers questions from soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas while visiting Camp Marez April 8, 2011 in Mosul, Iraq. Gates has been touring Iraq...
View Photo »Soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates speak at Camp Marez, in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, April 8, 2011.
View Photo »Defense Secretary Robert Gates gives his "challenge coin" while shaking hands and posing for photographs with soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, while visiting Camp Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, April 8, 2011.
View Photo »Defense Secretary Robert Gates climbs aboard a C-17 airplane after meeting troops from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, while visiting Camp Marez, Friday, April 8, 2011 in Mosul, Iraq.
View Photo »Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivers remarks to soldiers from the 4th Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Calvalry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas while visiting Camp Marez in Mosul, Iraq, Friday, April 8, 2011.
View Photo »Iraqi security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack outside the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. A car bomb killed several people outside the northern city of Mosul on Monday, Iraq officials said, in the...
View Photo »When the US withdrew from this triangle which is Diyala, Salahuddin, Anbar and Mosul ... a gap was left behind ... Al-Qaeda has redeployed in the area ... Al-Qaeda is present, it appears and disappears and carries out operations, attacks and retreats. It's a guerrilla war, but they are no longer able to...
