Mosul is a 2019 Arabic-language American war action film [2] written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan. The film is based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul, which saw Iraqi government forces and coalition allies defeat ISIS, who had controlled the city since June 2014.

Jan 29, 2017 · A SWAT team of Iraqis, all of whom have suffered at the hands of terrorists, join the fight to retake Mosul—and plan to exact revenge.

Nov 30, 2020 · In the film, Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city, has been ravaged by ISIS fighters who raped, tortured and murdered Iraqis to establish control. As the SWAT team hones in on its...

Dec 3, 2020 · War correspondent Luke Mogelson profiled an elite Iraqi SWAT unit of Mosul policemen seeking vengeance over depraved ISIS terrorists that had kidnapped many of their families, sharing...

The Counter Terrorism Service (CTS; Arabic: جهاز مكافحة الارهاب) is an Iraqi security and intelligence agency tasked with counterterrorism. [2] The Service’s operational arm is called the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF; Arabic: قوات العمليات الخاصة العراقية).

5 days ago · Terrorist fighters with ISIL/Da’esh invaded Iraq’s second city of Mosul in 2014, destroying centuries-old landmarks in a bid to erase its history and impose a bleak and repressive future on the nearly two million people who lived there. Now, with UN support, Mosul has risen from the ashes of war and its historic monuments which had been ...

Dec 4, 2020 · In February 2017, The New Yorker published a long account of Ninewa province’s SWAT team as they fought the self-proclaimed Islamic State in the embattled city of Mosul, Iraq. Each SWAT member had endured personal tragedy at the hands of ISIS, and their mission was to take revenge against its remaining fighters.

Jan 20, 2020 · Sangar Khaleel, an Iraqi journalist who works for NPR, tells the story of three friends who served in an elite SWAT unit that helped drive ISIS from Mosul, and whose fight against ISIS...

Between 2014 and 2017, ISIS occupied the Iraqi city of Mosul. During those years, the only group to fight the occupiers continuously was Nineveh province's SWAT unit, made up of local men who had either been injured or had a family member killed by ISIS.

5 days ago · MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.. Nearly eight years after IS militants were driven out of the city, the minaret has been rebuilt as part of a massive internationally-funded reconstruction project in the …