#mosul iraq

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Iraqi SOF inside a bombed-out building in Mosul, 2017

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women deported from a babylonian city | c. 668-627 BCE | courtyard j of the north palace at nineveh (modern day mosul, iraq), assyrian

"The deportation policy that the Assyrian rulers followed constantly, and on a large scale, had two purposes: to repopulate the Assyrian cities and countryside, whose men had been drained off in numerous military campaigns; and to crush the conquered peoples’ national and cultural identity. This was especially the purpose of mass deportations from one province to the other and vice versa."

in the museo di scultura antica giovanni barracco collection

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Detail of the bronze Balawat Gates, showing Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III in a chariot with a group of Assyrian archers. The Balawat Gates are a set of decorated bronze gates dating from the reigns of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE) and Shalmaneser III (r. 859–824 BCE). They show the military exploits of these Neo-Assyrian monarchs in a detailed and narrative style. They are celebrated as some of the most beautiful and important pieces of Assyrian art found to date. These doors were the gateways to several building at Balawat, ancient Imgur-Enlil. The city lay 10 kilometers up the Derrah river, a branch of the Tigris, and was founded by Ashurnasirpal II. The town was situated along the Neo-Assyrian Royal Road between Nineveh and Arrapha. Shalmaneser III continued developing the settlement, but Balawat was eventually sacked some two and a half centuries later by Medes, Babylonians and Scythians. The remains reside currently in the British Museum and Mosul Museum, with other smaller sections to be found in several other museums.

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When will Americans stop making their shitty "the invaders feel sad and traumatized about doing war crimes" movies?

Coming to theatres in March 2025, Warfare is another shitty movie from Alex Garland and an Iraqi war veteran about fascists murdering countless nameless Iraqis and looking cool as fuck just blowing shit up left and right.

And I get the feeling this shitty movie is going to be all over Tumblr because the cast includes Tumblr faves Joseph Quinn and Kit Connor.

Nearly a million Iraqis died from the unlawful and illegal American invasion of Iraq. Civilians were raped, tortured and murdered with still no accountability till today. The country is still suffering from that war. Bush and co should have been tried and convicted of war crimes at the Hague.

And here Americans are making yet more movies depicting Arabs as the faceless, nameless, dehumanized baddies getting mowed down.

Let's be clear, the Americans are the invaders here, they don't merit any fucking sympathy. It's like making a movie about the Germans as the good guys during World War II - would that ever happen? No. But because Americans still think they are the good guys while massacring countless millions in other countries, we get shitty movies like this.

If you want to watch a war movie about Iraq, watch a movie from the perspective of the people whose country was being invaded:

Mosul (2019)

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The Wounded Land, Mosul, Iraq, 2019

Photograph: Sakir Khader

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Great Mosque, Mosul, IRAQ

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Armenia to recognize 3rd August as Day of Commemoration of Yazidi Genocide

The Armenian Parliament voted this week to designate August 3rd as the official commemoration day for the victims of Yazidi Genocide. The bill submitted by ethnic Yazidi MP Rustam Bakoyan passed the first reading with 88 votes in favor. Armenia will thus become the first country after Iraq to enshrine this into law.

“Genocide is a crime against humanity, and it is the biggest crime. This is a direct result and a direct consequence of incorrect and improper condemnation of the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The destinies of Armenians and Yazidis are quite similar, and our destinies have always crossed paths. We have often found ourselves in the same situations in different stages of history,” Bakoyan said as he presented the bill.

“The Republic of Armenia, adhering to the policy and priority it adopted in the process of prevention and condemnation of genocides, in 2014 condemned the genocide of Yazidis in Iraq from the high podium of the United Nations. In 2015, the Yazidi genocide in Iraq was condemned by the Armenian National Assembly factions, and in 2018 by the National Assembly,” the MP said.

“The prevention of genocide and crimes against humanity is one of the priorities of Armenia’s foreign policy,” Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannisyan said, adding that Armenia actively supports the measures aimed at the prevention and condemnation of the mentioned crimes, the processes of further development of tools and mechanisms for the prevention of genocides and other mass crimes, both on bilateral and multilateral cooperation platforms.

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

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by Oved Lobel

In Iraq, the combination of militias and security forces that liberated Mosul from IS, backed by US and allied airpower and artillery, were fighting to take back their own city, with a population almost entirely hostile to IS. They had around a year to plan the operation, had all the initiative and were under no domestic or international political or time constraints to complete the operation within a given period. Moreover, the Iraqi security forces lost more than 1,200 men in the battle, and perhaps more than 8,000.

Israel, by contrast, had approximately a week to plan an incredibly complex operation, having been caught entirely off-guard by the Hamas invasion on October 7. The IDF is fighting to remove a terrorist regime from territory Israel does not control and where the population is almost entirely hostile to Israel and supportive of Hamas.

In addition, Israel cannot afford an operation that lasts as long as the battle for Mosul did, nor can it afford the number of casualties sustained by Iraqi security forces around Mosul or US partner forces in Raqqa. The reason for this is simple: because of Israel’s conscript and reservist system, its soldiers are drawn from its workforce. On top of that, there is an insurmountable political and social imperative in Israeli society to preserve the lives of soldiers insofar as possible.

Internationally, meanwhile, pressure on Israel to either finish the war as quickly as possible or simply halt it entirely, regardless of the outcome, has been building since even before Israel launched its ground operation.

There are also substantive differences, both tactically and numerically, between Hamas and IS, including the reality that Hamas had 16 years to build up its much more impressive and embedded military infrastructure in civilian areas.

Finally, a key difference between the battlefields, one of many, is that the US and its partners on the ground were able to facilitate the evacuation of civilians from both Raqqa and Mosul before and during the battles, leaving far smaller civilian populations trapped in the cities while also reducing the battlespace by allowing IS operatives to leave the cities. IS eventually melted away and transitioned back into an insurgency.

In Gaza, where Hamas utilises every inch to attack Israel and is unwilling and unable to leave the battlefield like IS did, it is unfortunately impossible for civilians to flee to fully safe areas. They cannot exit into the Sinai both because Egypt will not allow it and because the international community has decided that temporarily displacing Palestinian civilians out of Gaza is worse than keeping them as human shields for Hamas.

Given all these factors, one would expect an Israeli operation necessarily to be more destructive over a shorter timeframe and to result in more civilian casualties. However, this indicates little about the conduct of the war.

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Iraqi Santa Claus next to an Iraqi Army tank clearing buildings in the city of Mosul during Christmas holidays, 2016.

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Major Jasem’s quirk about cleaning up trash is a nice touch. And such a heartwrenching one too. Goddamit, such a nice touch. Must Watch, if you are into military action. Reminds me of Saving Private Ryan.

Mosul is a 2019 Arabic-language American war action film written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan. It stars Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa, and Is’Haq Elias.

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An Iraqi soldier wears a gas mask amid reports of ISIL forces using chemical weapons to slow the advance on Western Mosul. April 16, 2017.

(Photo credit: Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

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Residents of Mosul organize a reforestation project

As the curtain rises on COP29, attendees are hoping to seal an agreement to unlock trillions of dollars to help climate vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.

Among these countries is Iraq, where in the city of Mosul, residents are taking matters into their own hands to combat climate change and restore the natural environment, after years of conflict.

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A bridge in Mosul in 1920

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Il sigillo del cielo di Glenn Cooper: Un viaggio tra fede, scienza e mistero. Recensione di Alessandria today

Pubblicato il 1° giugno 2022, Il sigillo del cielo è un altro appassionante romanzo di Glenn Cooper, autore di best seller internazionali.

Introduzione all’opera:Pubblicato il 1° giugno 2022, Il sigillo del cielo è un altro appassionante romanzo di Glenn Cooper, autore di best seller internazionali. Questa opera unisce passato, presente e futuro in una trama avvincente, dove la storia, il soprannaturale e il thriller si intrecciano per creare un’esperienza narrativa indimenticabile. Tradotto da Barbara Ronca, il libro mantiene lo…