The British Foreign Secretary attempted to disclaim any existence of oil in the Mosul area.

With the conclusion of the war, the 13th Division remained in the Mosul area on occupation duties until evacuated at the end of 1918.

Today, this entire area has been absorbed into Mosul metropolitan area.

Their resistance to tribes attacking from the north and west and from Mosul area in 1258 AD.

At the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq it was part of the 5th Corps in the Mosul area.

A spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division, which operates in the Mosul area, said he had no immediate comment on the document.

Attacks on American troops, which have killed more than 25 in the Mosul area this month, illustrate what local Iraqis say is a rapidly deteriorating relationship.

It was populated by Kurds originally from the Mosul area.

Most of the Kurds in the Mosul area came from that general area of Kurdistan.

Three Stryker battalions are already in the Mosul area.