Battle of Mosul (2004)

Battle of Mosul
	Part of the Iraq War
	; Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment fire mortars at insurgent positions in the city
Date	November 8–16, 2004
Location	Mosul, Iraq
Result	Coalition victory Failed insurgent attempt to take Mosul;
Belligerents
United States; Iraqi Security Forces ; Peshmerga	Al-Qaeda in Iraq; Ansar al-Sunna; Islamic Army in Iraq; Ba'ath Party Loyalists; Brigades of the Army of the Mustafa ; Army of the Conqueror; Other Iraqi insurgents
Commanders and leaders
John Sattler; Col Robert Brown; Jim Coffman; Adnan Thabit; (Police commando leader); Ahmed Khalaf Jabouri; (Police commissioner)	Mohammad Khalaf Shakara; (Abu Talha-Ansar leader); Mousa Mahdi; (Abu Abdul-Rahman-Ansar second-in-command); Hassan Ibrahim Farhan †; (AQI media chief)
Strength
2,000	Unknown
Casualties and losses
18 killed; 170 wounded; 116 killed; 5,000 deserted; 1 security contractor killed	Estimated 600 - at least 71 killed (confirmed); actual losses unknown
	Unknown number of civilians killed; 1 Turkish truck driver

The Battle of Mosul was fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah.

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