Back معركة الموصل Arabic Бітва за Масул (2004) Byelorussian Batalla de Mosul (2004) Spanish Mosulin taistelu (2004) Finnish Bataille de Mossoul (2004) French Batalha de Mossul (2004) Portuguese
| Battle of Mosul | |||||||
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| Part of the Iraq War | |||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Mosul_soldiers_November_2004.jpg) Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment fire mortars at insurgent positions in the city | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States Iraqi Security Forces  Peshmerga[1] |
 Al-Qaeda in Iraq[2]Ansar al-Sunna[3] Islamic Army in Iraq[4] &sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_the_Ba%27ath_Party.svg){kind=small} Ba'ath Party Loyalists[5]Brigades of the Army of the Mustafa[6] Army of the Conqueror[7] Other Iraqi insurgents | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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John Sattler Col Robert Brown Jim Coffman Adnan Thabit (Police commando leader) Ahmed Khalaf Jabouri(Police commissioner) Masoud Barzani |
Mohammad Khalaf Shakara (Abu Talha-Ansar leader) Mousa Mahdi (Abu Abdul-Rahman-Ansar second-in-command) Hassan Ibrahim Farhan † (AQI media chief) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,000 | Unknown | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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18 killed 170 wounded 116 killed5,000 deserted[9]  1 security contractor killed |
Estimated 600 – at least 71 killed (confirmed) actual losses unknown | ||||||
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Unknown number of civilians killed 1 Turkish truck driver | |||||||
The Battle of Mosul was fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah.
- ^ Mockaitis, Thomas R., The Iraq War Encyclopedia , ABC-CLIO, 2013 ISBN 0313380627 ISBN 978-0313380624
- ^ Mockaitis, Thomas R., The Iraq War Encyclopedia , ABC-CLIO, 2013 ISBN 0313380627 ISBN 978-0313380624
- ^ http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/reports/Iraq%20Report%208.pdf, p.9
- ^ Nance, Malcolm W., The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, CRC Press, 2014 ISBN 1498706894 ISBN 978-1498706896
- ^ Mockaitis, Thomas R., The Iraq War Encyclopedia , ABC-CLIO, 2013 ISBN 0313380627 ISBN 978-0313380624
- ^ Nance, Malcolm W., The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, CRC Press, 2014 ISBN 1498706894 ISBN 978-1498706896
- ^ Nance, Malcolm W., The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency 2003-2014, CRC Press, 2014 ISBN 1498706894 ISBN 978-1498706896
- ^ "Troops Pound Insurgents In Mosul". Military.com. 12 November 2004. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ^ "Jan 26, 2005, Casey: Iraqi security may never be able to beat insurgents". NBC News. 2005-01-26. Retrieved September 7, 2010.