Battle of Mosul (2016)

Battle of Mosul (2016-present)

Part of the Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) and
the American-led intervention in Iraq

A map of the situation in Mosul on May 13, 2017 Iraqi government control ISIL control Peshmerga control

Date	16 October 2016 – present (6 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location	Iraq Southwest Erbil Governorate Nineveh Governorate
Status	Ongoing
Territorial changes	The ISF recaptured all of eastern Mosul by 24 January 2017. As of 3 December 2016, the ISF and Peshmerga have captured a total of 5,677 square kilometers (2,192 sq mi) and 369 villages from ISIL.

Belligerents

Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
(until November 2016)
Supported by:

CJTF–OIR

Iran
Hezbollah

Iraqi Ba'ath Party Loyalists

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)

Commanders and leaders

Haidar al-Abadi
(Prime Minister of Iraq)
Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah
(commander of the operation)
Lt. Gen. Talib Shaghati al-Kenan
(Joint Military Command, ICTS)
Maj. Gen. Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari
(ISOF commander)
Col. Falah Hassan Salman †
(91st Brigade commander)
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
(Head of the PMF)
Massoud Barzani
(President of Regional Kurdish Government)
Barack Obama
(President of the United States, until 20 January 2017)
Donald Trump
(President of the United States, since 20 January 2017)
Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend
(CJTF-OIR commander)
Muhammad Kawarithmi
(Hezbollah commander of Iraqi operations)

Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(Leader of ISIL)

Zeyad Kharoufa †
(ISIL Minister of Media)

Abu Izzam †
(ISIL Oil Minister)

Abdullah al-Bardani †
(a.k.a Abu Ayoub al-Attar; ISIL's Mufti)

Omran Abu Mariam
(ISIL War Council leader)

Haqqi Esmaeil Owaid †
(a.k.a. Abu Ahmed; ISIL Governor of Mosul)

Abu Hajar (POW)
(ISIL's eastern Mosul assistant leader)

Marwan Hamid Salih al-Hayali †
(Local wali of ISIL)

Kanaan Breis †
(ISIL's Governor of Tal Afar)

Abu As’ad al-Iraqi
(ISIL Emir of Tal Afar)

Aziz Ali †
(Senior commander)

Abu Hudhaifa † (Prominent ISIL leader)

Mahmoud Ali Mahmoud Matar al-Hadidi †
(Top field commander)

Aymam al-Mosuli †
(Commander of the special security forces)

Abu Faruq †
(Commander of Bashiqa)

Abu Yakoub †
(Operations official)

Abu Hamza al-Ansari †
(Senior leader)

Mahmoud Shukri al-Nuaimi †
(a.k.a. Sheikh Faris; senior commander)

Falah al-Rashidi †
(ISIL vehicle suicide bomb leader)

Abu Turq †
(ISIL financial facilitator)

Abu Abdulrahman †
(ISIL executioner)

Abbas Suleiman Ismail AlHaider †
(a.k.a. Abu Aesha; ISIL foreigners recruiter)

Abu Hamza al-Tounsy †
(Prominent explosives expert)

Abu Dur al-Tunsi
(Military commander; deserted)

Bilal al-Shawash
(Military commander; deserted)

Abu Bakr el Sheshani †
(ISIL military official in Nineveh Governorate)

Abu Fatma el Tounsi †
(ISIL's financial official in Nineveh Governorate)

Abu Yassin al-Rousi †
(ISIL's military planning offical )

Abu Maria al-Rusi †
(ISIL's petroleum supplies official)

Abu Maha †
(ISIL's intelligence affairs official)

Ali Reda Mahmoud †
(ISIL's education official)

Salah Hassan el Sakalawi (a.k.a. Dr. Abdullah) †
(ISIL health minister)

Abu Hassan el Homosi †
(ISIL's emir of health in Wilayat al Sham)

Ahmed Abu Ghaz †
(ISIL's chemical official)

Saad Abu Shoeib †
(ISIL's Mosul Old City health minister)

Strength

54,000–60,000 ISF troops
14,000 paramilitary troops
40,000 Peshmerga troops
Total: 108,500–114,000 fighters

Support:

450 CJTF–OIR personnel

4,500–12,000 militants
(1,000 foreigners)
1,000+ (as of 5 May)

Casualties and losses

774 killed, 4,600+ wounded
30 killed, 70–100 wounded
2 killed
2 killed
Total: 807+ killed, ~4,700+ wounded (U.S. claim)

9,100 killed
(ISIL claim)

2,000+ killed or wounded
(U.S. claim)
2,000 killed (per a morgue worker)
3,000–4,700+ killed (Iraqi claim)

1,000+ civilians killed (October–November)
3,864 civilians killed (Mid-February – Mid-March 2017)
8,000+ civilians killed (as of 5 May)
Displaced:
369,594 (per IOM)
460,000 (per Iraq)
630,000+ (per UN)

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