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Mosul offensive (2016)

Mosul offensive of 2016
Part of the Iraqi Civil War and the U.S.-led intervention in Iraq
Map of Mosul area
Map of the Kurdish-launched Mosul offensive, August 2016
Date 24 March – 22 September 2016
(5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location Southwest Erbil Governorate; Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Status

Significant gains for Iraqi government; start of the Battle of Mosul
Belligerents

 Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan
CJTF–OIR:

  Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)(ISIS)
Commanders and leaders

Haidar al-Abadi (Prime Minister of Iraq)
Iraq Major Gen. Najim al-Jubouri (ISF commander of Nineveh Operations)
Iraqi Kurdistan Arshad Sanaa † (Peshmerga commander)
CJTF–OIR:

 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
(Leader)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Suleiman al-Naser † (Military Chief)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Jannat † (ISIL Deputy Military Chief)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari † (ISIL Deputy War Minister)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Mohammad Ahmad Sha’yeb † (ISIL Governor of the Nineveh Province)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Jassim Salim al-Matyouti † (Replacement Nineveh Province Governor)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Isaac † (Spokesman)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Thaher Mohammed Salman al-Sabawi † (Top commander in the Nineveh Province)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Salam Abd Shabib al-Jbouri † (Top ISIL commander in Mosul)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Hatim Talib al-Hamduni † (Military commander in Mosul)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Imad Khalid Afar † (Senior ISIL adviser)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Wahid as-Sabaawi † (oil minister)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Zaineb † (ISIL commander in Qayyarah)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Ahmed Ghanem al-Hadidi † (Chief of "Cubs of the Caliphate" in Mosul)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Omar al-Assafi (POW) (Wali of Shirqat)
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Abu Suleiman †
Units involved

Iraq:

Iraqi Kurdistan:


Ezidkhan:

United States:

France:

United Kingdom:

Canada:

Military of ISIL
Strength

ISF: 20,000–25,000 soldiers
Peshmerga: 10,000 soldiers
NPU: 600 fighters

US: 200 Marines (tactical support only)
500 military advisors (since Sept.)		 7,000 – 10,000 militants (in Mosul city)
At least 5,000 militants (in Mosul suburbs)
Total: 12,000 – 15,000
Casualties and losses
62 killed
254 wounded
20 killed
150 wounded
 United States 1 killed
 France 2 wounded

ISIL claims +6630,overall casualties 		1,300+ militants killed (by June 2016)
99 deserters executed
100+ boats destroyed
783+ civilians executed

120,000+ civilians displaced

Significant gains for Iraqi government; start of the Battle of Mosul

 Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan
CJTF–OIR:

Haidar al-Abadi (Prime Minister of Iraq)
Iraq Major Gen. Najim al-Jubouri (ISF commander of Nineveh Operations)
Iraqi Kurdistan Arshad Sanaa † (Peshmerga commander)
CJTF–OIR:


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