City on the River Tigris in northern Iraq. Captured by British forces in the last action of the Mesopotamia campaign (3 November 1918).

a city in northern Iraq on the Tigris across from the ruins of Nineveh

Mosul ( , Kurdish: Mûsil, Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܐ Nîněwâ, Turkish: Musul) is a city in northern Iraq and the capital of Ninawa Governorate.