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| ('theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/08/barack-obama-isis-iraq-g7-russia-fifa-immigration-healthcare', 0)                    | The United States does not " yet have a complete strategy " for standing up an Iraqi force to take on Isis militants , President Barack Obama said on Monday , >>>a year after the capture by Isis of the northern city of Mosul<<< and amid new warnings by the Iraqi prime minister that the militant group continued to profit from oil sales . |
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| ('theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/media-under-reports-threat-islamic-terrorism-to-muslims-trump-white-house-list', 14) | In the aftermath of the >>>Isis seizure of Mosul<<< in 2014 , British newspapers reported that 40 kg of uranium stolen from science laboratories in the city 's university had been used by Isis to make a dirty bomb .                                                                                                                            |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/08/force-protection-rationale-us-airstrikes-irbil-obama-isis', 37)                        | If Isis can not cross into Kurdistan , will Obama use air power to help the Peshmerga take back territory from Isis , a challenge Isis has never faced since >>>it took Mosul in June<<< ?                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/03/us-iran-forced-same-side-isis', 19)                                                    | Another reason is that the two countries are on opposite sides of the war in Syria , where Isis expanded before it horrified the region and the world by >>>taking over the Iraqi city of Mosul<<< last summer .                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/jihadi-groups-kill-5000-people-in-november', 8)                                        | Not surprisingly , most attacks ( 44 % of the total ) were attributed to Islamic State , which operates primarily in Iraq and Syria and shot to international notoriety when >>>it captured the Iraqi city of Mosul last June<<< .                                                                                                                 |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/arrived-in-kurdistan-with-chemical-weapon-suit-iraq-saddam-hussein', 3)                | Its fighters >>>captured Mosul<<< , Iraq 's second biggest city , and Tikrit , Saddam Hussein 's birthplace .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/18/new-militant-group-replaces-isis-mosul', 3)                                            | Last month Isis >>>staged a stunning advance<<< , seizing Mosul and Tikrit , and raising the spectre of Iraq 's collapse .                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed', 11)                         | Sarab Hazem , from the Zehoor neighbourhood of Mosul , said that initially there were no attacks on Christians when >>>Isis took the city in a lightning offensive in June<<< , though Isis fighters did capture and take away police , security agents and soldiers . "                                                                           |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/10/us-iraq-maliki-government-action-mosul-isis', 2)                                       | The US on Tuesday pressed for a strong response to push >>>Islamic extremists out of Mosul<<< , Iraq 's second largest city , as a sudden withdrawal of Iraqi government forces from the city led the White House to question whether prime minister Nouri al-Maliki was doing enough to hold his country together .                               |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-occupiers-mosul-boon-burden', 0)                                                  | The leaders of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ( Isis ) did not expect to >>>seize the northern Iraqi city of Mosul when they attacked on Monday<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-too-extreme-al-qaida-terror-jihadi', 9)                                           | But any notion that Isis is a spent force has been shattered by its >>>capture of Mosul<<< , Iraq 's second largest city .                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/kurdish-high-alert-iraqi-army-mosul-isis', 7)                                          | Since state security forces >>>abandoned their positions in Mosul two days ago<<< – leaving Iraq 's second city to militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( Isis ) – thousands of its residents have headed for the relative safety of the Kurdistan region .                                                                     |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/security-collapse-mosul-iraq-nouri-al-maliki-responsibility', 0)                       | Nouri al-Maliki , Iraq 's tough-guy prime minister , bears much responsibility for the >>>security collapse in Mosul and surrounding areas in the face of this week 's hard-driving Islamist military offensive<<< .                                                                                                                               |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/us-ambassadors-iraq-hopeful-security-situation', 3)                                    | Fighters under the banner of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ( Isis ) on Wednesday moved swiftly into the city of Tikrit , just 95 miles north of Baghdad , >>>after seizing Mosul<<< , Iraq 's second-largest city , a day before .                                                                                                      |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/04/turkish-troops-iraq-train-forces-fighting-isis', 1)                                    | >>>Isis militants overran Mosul<<< , a city of more than 1 million people , in June 2014 , but a much anticipated counter-offensive by Iraqi forces has been repeatedly postponed because they are involved in fighting elsewhere                                                                                                                  |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/31/senior-isis-militant-weapons-killed-abu-malik-airstrike-us-mosul-iraq', 14)            | >>>Mosul has been in Isis 's uncontested control<<< since June , a seizure setting into motion Barack Obama 's resumption of an Iraq war that he campaigned to end .                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/01/egypt-sinai-peninsula-attacks-army-checkpoints-car-bombing', 23)                       | The invading of a city , taking over buildings – that is a new development , and it 's similar to >>>the over-running of cities that we 've seen in Iraq<<< and Syria , " said Gold .                                                                                                                                                              |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/03/isis-and-affiliates-around-the-world', 4)                                              | The militants launched a lightning offensive last summer in which they conquered the province of Nineveh and its capital , >>>Mosul<<< , Saddam Hussein 's hometown of Tikrit , and large parts of Anbar province , from which it had once been evicted by the US-backed Sunni " Awakening " movement .                                            |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/iraq-uses-new-f-16-jets-for-first-time-in-raids-against-islamic-state', 12)            | Insecurity in Iraq , where >>>IS seized significant territory in June 2014<<< , had delayed the delivery of the jets , with the first batch being sent to Arizona , where Iraqi pilots have been training .                                                                                                                                        |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/01/the-australian-family-who-have-made-their-home-in-a-refugee-haven-in-iraq', 1)         | The next morning , >>>the city of Mosul<<< , a bare 150 km away , fell to Isis , whose fighters swept east on a seemingly inexorable wave of military successes .                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/isis-plans-export-chaos-europe-paris-brussels', 25)                                    | And >>>Mosul , where the Isis insurrection in Syria morphed into a phenomenon<<< that imperilled the regional order , is under increasing threat from regrouping US-backed Iraqi forces .                                                                                                                                                          |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/mosul-the-city-that-will-define-not-just-iraqs-war-but-its-future', 8)                 | Behind the Iraqis , the Kurdish peshmerga remained dug into positions near the city of Makhmour that had marked the frontline since not long after >>>Mosul was seized in June 2014<<< .                                                                                                                                                           |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/06/iraqi-special-forces-isis-eastern-edge-mosul', 9)                                      | The extremists >>>captured the city in 2014<<< , and have had plenty of time to erect fortifications .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/suicide-truck-bomber-kills-scores-of-shia-pilgrims-in-iraq', 27)                       | Veisi said Iran 's support had been instrumental in recent years in pushing back Isis on a number of occasions , including stopping fighters from getting closer to Baghdad after >>>Mosul 's fall<<< and more recently in preventing fighters from taking Erbil and helping the army retake Ramadi .                                              |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/kurdish-forces-mosul-peshmerga-troops-isis-iraq-fighting-every-yard', 7)               | The outskirts of Mosul , >>>the scene of Isis 's first and most important conquest<<< and now very much the key to whatever emerges from Iraq 's past three years of ruin , were only 10 miles beyond .                                                                                                                                            |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/20/mosul-attack-kurdish-forces-launch-large-scale-operation-against-isis-in-iraq', 62)    | Isis captured Mosul >>>during a lightning advance across northern Iraq in 2014<<< , and the terrorist group 's leader , Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , announced the formation of a caliphate from the pulpit of a Mosul mosque .                                                                                                                          |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/mosul-isis-iraq', 15)                                                                  | New dynamics have emerged since >>>Isis seized Mosul more than two years ago<<< .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/losing-ground-fighter-morale-is-it-all-over-for-isis-syria-turkey', 19)                | Within months of >>>seizing Iraq 's second biggest city , Mosul<<< , in June 2014 , Isis had splintered the authority of embattled leaders on both sides of the now-irrelevant border between Iraq and Syria and created a terrifying new form of governance , rooted in an uncompromising reading of Islamic tenets and unchecked savagery .      |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/09/iraq-formally-declares-end-to-fight-against-islamic-state', 11)                        | The slow and extremely bloody battle against Isis began in the summer of 2014 , soon after a few thousand of the group 's fighters stunned Iraq and the world >>>by seizing Mosul<<< .                                                                                                                                                             |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/25/slaves-of-isis-the-long-walk-of-the-yazidi-women', 13)                                 | Convoys of cars , kicking up dust in the distance , had appeared two months before , just before the city of Mosul – the capital of Nineveh province , of which Sinjar is a part – >>>fell to Islamic State ( Isis<<< ) .                                                                                                                          |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/after-the-liberation-of-mosul-an-orgy-of-killing', 493)                                | He was stationed in Mosul >>>when the city fell<<< on 10 June 2014 , and he saw the humiliation and rout of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers .                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
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| ('theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/21/iraq-ferry-sinking-people-killed-mosul-tigris-river', 32)                              | Mosul was >>>captured by Islamic State<<< in 2014 , but Iraqi forces drove Isis from the city three years later after a devastating campaign that left entire neighbourhoods in ruins .                                                                                                                                                            |
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