Sources: Al-Manar
A propaganda video featuring Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is released, in which he references the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, indicating that he is still alive and that the video was shot very recently. It is the first time he's been seen on video since July 2014, when he addressed a crowd at the now destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul. 2019-04-29
ISIL militants reportedly blow up the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi famously proclaimed the creation of a caliphate in 2014. ISIL blames a U.S. airstrike. 2017-06-21
The UN reports 232 civilians have been murdered in and near Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. 2016-10-28
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executes at least 284 people in Mosul. 2016-10-22
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of the Battle of Mosul, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, to retake ISIL-held Mosul, the self-declared caliphate's capital in Iraq. 2016-10-17
ISIL claims responsibility as a response to take back launching of its stronghold Mosul by the Iraqi forces. 2016-10-15
Around 20 people, including civilians and Islamic State militants, are killed in airstrikes on Mosul in northern Iraq. 2015-12-21
ISIL confirms that U.S. forces killed its number two leader, Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi, in an airstrike near Mosul back in August. 2015-10-14
A parliamentary report on the causation for Mosul's fall to ISIL with so little resistance includes former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki among dozens of officials named. 2015-08-16
ISIS burns more than 8,000 rare books and manuscripts in Mosul, Iraq. 2015-02-22