Time Line.. the most prominent events of the fall of Mosul
On June 10, 2014, ISIS took control of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq, specifically the city of Mosul, the provincial capital.
Mosul is the capital of Nineveh Governorate, located 400 km north of the capital, Baghdad, and is considered the second largest Iraqi city.
MOMEN ALZRZOOR — data journalist
Sequence of events
June 5, 2014 :
1- Nineveh Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi: “There are no armed men, neither in Mosul nor on its outskirts, and imposing a curfew in the city is a precautionary act.”
2- Major clashes that resulted in the killing of 7 soldiers and police and the injury of more than 30 others in the city of Samarra, Salah al-Din Governorate, in a series of attacks and incursions into the city.
June 6 :
1- Clashes between “ISIS” militants and the Iraqi army in “Mushairifa”, “July 17”, “Al-Haramat”, “Al-Tanak District”, “Al-Uraibi District”, “Al-Zahra District” and “Al-Tahrir District” outskirts of the right side of the western side of the city conductor.
2- Approximately 12 people were killed and dozens were wounded in car bomb attacks and armed clashes in the same neighborhoods.
3- Clashes continued between ISIS militants and the Almoravids of the Seventh Regiment and the local police for 3 days without these elements receiving any help from the Operations Command, which led to its collapse in the end and opened the door to increasing security collapses.
7 June:
1- The beginning of the mass exodus from several neighborhoods in the city of Mosul for fear of being bombarded after the increase in the progress of ISIS militants inside the residential neighborhoods.
2- The government forces announced the bombing of the areas controlled by the militants and regained “control of 90%” of the city of Mosul.
June 8 :
1- Clashes continue in Mosul between ISIS militants and the security forces, with indiscriminate shelling of the areas controlled by the militants.
June 9:
1- The Federal Police withdraws — without any fighting — from its headquarters in the New Mosul area and Al-Risala neighborhood and burns those headquarters.
2- 13 ISIS fighters attacking a unit of the Federal Police that was forming a front line from the city, but the unit’s members ran away.
3- A major collapse in the ranks of the forces of the Second Division of the Iraqi army after it was rumored among the soldiers that the senior commanders in the Operations Command had fled and cut the bridges behind them on the right coast of the city.
June 10:
1- “ISIS” controls weapons, vehicles, and large equipment, which the security forces left after the withdrawal, which increased the security breakdown, according to the US State Department.
2- “ISIS” announces full control of the Mosul neighborhoods, with the withdrawal of security leaders and official forces, estimated at three large divisions of the army and police.
3- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki: “The armed forces will regain control of Mosul within 24 hours.”
June 11:
1- Continuing displacement from Mosul to the Kurdistan region and the neighboring villages, after the continued bombing of some places where militants were located in residential neighborhoods.
2- ISIS declared complete control of Mosul, up to the districts and sub-districts, up to Salah al-Din Governorate.
3- “ISIS” evacuates the prisoners of “Badush” prison (the second largest prison in Iraq) for terrorist crimes, major crimes, and the prisons of police stations in the city, and released hundreds of detainees sentenced there for security cases
4- “ISIS” controls the banks and government departments and raids the political and diplomatic facilities in the city, including the Turkish consulate.
This report was written in the ALSSAA media network
