Mosul

ISIS progresses to carry out terrorist attacks around the world frequently originating in the Middle East. ISIS causes great devastation everywhere that ISIS attacks. ISIS is a barbaric terrorist organization that needs to be disassembled and terminated before this organization commits future attacks. ISIS is a deadly terrorist group that impacts citizens and should be acknowledged more in the U.S.A. ISIS is a terrorist organization that is a xenophobic group that is located in the Middle East.…

his success in providing normalcy in Nineveh Province Iraq in 2003. Three Strategy Goals Of MG David H. Petraeus three strategy goals, the first was to provide a secure environment. The City of Mosul is in the Nineveh Province of Northern Iraq. The general guided the 101st Airborne Division into Mosul only to find the city in ruins. Most of the Provinces infrastructure was in disarray. Public utilities were nonexistent. Opportunities for the local nationals to earn an income did not exist.…

caught my attention in this story right off the bat by mentioning ISIS and Iraqi. Jonathan gave good details at the beginning, but didn’t go too in-depth with the details. He gives multiple good points. Stating that “ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul,…

ISIS first started when the US government first killed Saddam Hussein in an air strike. The US destroyed the government in Iraq, but also destroyed Infrastructure. So basically it was US fault that ISIS was formed. There were lots of people who lived under the rule of Saddam Hussein so they may not have been so happy when their ruler died. Also the people in Iraq were living normal lives and when Saddam Hussein was ruling. Since the US destroyed Iraq, it was easy for ISIS to take over. ISIS…

ISIS has been horrifying the world by their act now they are looting and destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq and Syria. They destructed of statues, books and art that date from the Assyrian and Akkadian empires. These artifacts were worth billions of dollars, more than that they were symbol of starting of civilization. One of Statue destroyed among many others was Statue of Hatra king. We know very less about king’s identity, but many believed he was Sanatrug. He ruled Hatra modern day Iraq. He…

the country’s majority Shia population in order to undermine the confidence in the Shia led government and its efforts to protect its people without support from the Americans. In 2014, the insurgency ascended severely following the conquest of Mosul and major areas in northern Iraq by the Sunni rebel group, thereby merging the new conflict with the Syrian Civil War, into a new, far deadlier conflict. After 12 years of the crisis, the rise of ISIS began. It has transformed the insurgency into…

‘Crusade’ is a non-medieval Franco-Spanish hybrid that has been considered synonymous to the pursuit of a good cause. The Crusades were a series of on and off religious wars fought between the years from 1096 to 1487 under the authority of various Popes. The Crusades were basically fought for the recovery of the Holy Land. They were ordered by Pope Urban II in 1095, and within months the first Europeans had arrived in the Middle East to rid the Holy Land of Muslims. One story particularly…

large settlements in the west. The crusaders tended to keep the region until 1130, but when the Muslims army started to capture areas in their holy war or what they call as Jihad towards the Christians, Zangi the governor of Seljuk and the governor Mosul took control of Edessa as a result of losing the crusader state in the north. The end of Edessa astonished Europe that caused Christian power or there authorities to shout out for another crusade. King Louis VII and king Conrad III are both…

Saddam Hussein was the former dictator of Iraq and controlled the country for 20 years. He terrorized the Iraqi citizens, and completely overlooked their rights. Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 to a poor family in Tikrit. After he moved to Baghdad as a teenager he join the baath party. He joined to try to get his cousin the dictator of Iraq in July of 1968. He went into hiding shortly after the American invasion. Saddam was captured in December of 2003 and was executed about 3 years…

Byzantium and the Muslims We have all heard about the Crusades, how two main religions went to war against each other in the name of God. But what were the Crusades really about? The Crusades was a time when two religions, Christianity and Islam, went to war against each other. This was a time when tension between the two religions as well as Judaism resulted in eight major Crusades between 1096 and 1291 and even a Children’s Crusade that ended in a catastrophe. According to Pope Urban II, he…