Again, the Iraqis have been pulling back without much of a fight and consolidating their positions around Kirkuk and Mosul.
When the area was part of the Ottoman Empire prior to World War One, it was three separate provinces centered on Baghdad, Basra and Mosul, in recognition of its ethnic diversity.
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Asked about the two volatile regions of Baquba and Mosul, north of Baghdad, Odierno said he believes troops will withdraw from Baquba, but noted that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will have to make a decision about Mosul, where al Qaeda in Iraq militants have been active.
Matsuura called for protection of the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad and the Mosul Museum and other institutions in the Baghdad region.
Aside from the night of March 21st, the bombardment of Baghdad and of other cities such as Kirkuk, Mosul and Tikrit by aircraft and cruise missiles has been less destructive than was widely expected.
Both were from Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle and served in Mosul, Iraq, then saw fighting in Najaf and Karbala as well as action in Baghdad.
One Task Force Lightning soldier died and another soldier was injured in the incident, which occurred in Nineveh province, where Mosul and Tal Afar are located.
At the top of his to-do list: resuscitating a power station in the capital, a bridge in Mosul and water supplies in Basra.
The northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, major oil-producing centers, were the target of bombing for the third night in a row Saturday night.
We'll still have forces up north in Mosul and we'll still have forces down south in the Basra area, but they really are (unintelligible) force.
In these areas, the insurgency has recently been oscillating in ferocity: falling, for example, in Mosul and western Nineva in recent weeks, where American and Kurdish protection has been increased, only to peak elsewhere.
Political control of the area around Mosul, and the oil beneath it, is in dispute.
Iraqi soldiers have been abandoning those positions without a fight and pulling back toward Mosul.
From November 10-17, 29 people have been killed and 82 wounded in Mosul, said an Iraqi Ministry of Health official.
But the new parliament was at least able to elect a speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi (pictured above, right), an influential Sunni from the embattled northern city of Mosul, and to re-elect the incumbent president, Jalal Talabani (left), a Kurd.
That in area (a) the Baghdad railway shall not be extended southwards beyond Mosul, and in area (b) northwards beyond Samarra, until a railway connecting Baghdad and Aleppo via the Euphrates valley has been completed, and then only with the concurrence of the two governments.
Due to sand storms and inclement weather, we were diverted from Mosul to Balad Air Force Base, located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and home to the descendants of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
Iraqi troops in and near the northern city of Mosul have been fighting al Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni militant group.
Munsuf Abdallah al-Khaldi, 35, was shot by unidentified gunmen in his car as he was on his way with three passengers to interview poets in Mosul for his educational and cultural programme.
Also, troops in the northern city of Mosul captured a wanted man and four of his associates.
On 15 November, gunmen shot and killed Ms Abid, a journalist for local daily newspaper Al-Masar, and her driver in the east of Mosul.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Insurgents fired a mortar round Thursday into the office of Nineveh's provincial governor as American and Iraqi forces attempted to restore order in Mosul, the U.S. military said.
Mosul is the capital of Nineveh province and is the largest city in northern Iraq.
Qusay and Uday were killed in a gun battle Tuesday in Mosul after a local resident tipped off U.S. troops to their presence, U.S. commanders said.
Last week, Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said 1, 424 Christian families had fled Mosul.
The operations took place in Mosul, Tarmiya, Bi'aj, Baiji and the Balad area.
And another defendant, the former governor of the province of Mosul in the north, was actually released because of lack of evidence.
Also in Mosul, the bodies of a middle school headmaster and teacher kidnapped earlier on Monday were found, an Interior Ministry official said.
On February 28th and March 1st, American missiles blew up radio relay stations near Mosul in the north that transmit operational data for Iraq's main oil pipeline.
In 2003 and early 2004, Petraeus was fairly successful in tamping down violence in Mosul using unconventional methods.
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