Political control of the area around Mosul, and the oil beneath it, is in dispute.
On Friday, Iraqi security forces arrested four men in Mosul in connection with anti-Christian attacks.
Last week, Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said 1, 424 Christian families had fled Mosul.
Up in the north, it appears the Iraqi forces are withdrawing in the Mosul area.
Earlier this year the archbishop of the ancient Chaldean church was abducted in Mosul and murdered.
Iraqi soldiers have been abandoning those positions without a fight and pulling back toward Mosul.
And there's no doubt in my mind that they'll do the same thing here in Mosul.
Mosul is the capital of Nineveh province and is the largest city in northern Iraq.
In Mosul, at least 12 people were wounded in a double car bombing Tuesday.
In April 2008, he blew himself up in Mosul, Iraq, killing a number of Iraqis.
Around Mosul, where three Kurdish tribal chiefs support Mr Hussein, Kurds may kill each other.
Now commanders in northern Iraq's largest city, Mosul, say they've uncovered a network of Mafia-style rackets.
The bombed houses outside Mosul were under the protection of the armed Kurdish fighters of the peshmerga.
Also, troops in the northern city of Mosul captured a wanted man and four of his associates.
Anas, 27, hosted several programs on Sama Mosul, a local TV station that began broadcasting last year.
In Mosul, for example, three pro-referendum campaigners were kidnapped, then murdered, outside a busy mosque this month.
In 2003 and early 2004, Petraeus was fairly successful in tamping down violence in Mosul using unconventional methods.
There has been helpful assistance in the logistic build-up of the inspection infrastructure, e.g. at the Mosul office.
By October 2007, Michaelis said, al Qaeda seemed to make a strategic decision to retreat northward to Mosul.
Myers said one Marine was wounded early Monday during a firefight on the Mosul airfield in the north.
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Al-Maliki is in Mosul overseeing a military offensive called Mother of Two Springs against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Fourteen Christians have been slain in recent weeks in Mosul, which is about 260 miles north of Baghdad.
The destruction, damage and theft of artifacts took place "notably" in Baghdad, Mosul and Tikrit, the agency said.
Kurdish fighters did go into Kirkuk and Mosul - two strategic northern cities - ahead of US troops.
Born in 1961 in Mosul, Iraq, the militant joined al Qaeda late in the last decade, according to the intelligence official.
In April 2008 he blew himself up in Mosul, Iraq, killing a number of Iraqis, the Pentagon said.
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Soldiers also cut road access from Baghdad and the northern cities of Salahuddin and Mosul to Kirkuk on Tuesday.
The two sides used to meet weekly at an Iraqi post near Mosul.
North of the city of Mosul, Iraqi forces pulled back about 13 miles.
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