<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mosul: News &amp; Videos about Mosul - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Mosul</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Mosul from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:34:55 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Mosul: News &amp; Videos about Mosul - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Mosul</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Mosul from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>U.S.: Drone hits Islamic Party building in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/26/iraq.drone/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/26/iraq.drone/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S. drone crashed in northern Iraq Saturday morning, damaging the Mosul branch of the powerful Iraqi Islamic Party -- the nation's largest Sunni political party, a U.S. military spokesman confirmed.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq raises church security amid bombings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/13/iraq.church.bombings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/13/iraq.church.bombings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraq has increased security around all Christian places of worship after a wave of church bombings that has killed four and wounded at least 35 others.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombings in Iraq kill at least 19, wound some 60</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/08/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/08/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bombings in Iraq on Wednesday killed at least 19 people and wounded 58, mainly around Nineveh province, where political tensions have recently flared between Arabs and Kurds.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>With exit deadline looming, U.S. battles insurgents in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/08/us.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/08/us.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As the deadline nears for U.S. troops to exit major Iraqi cities, units in Mosul are in the midst of a months-long operation to sweep out extremist fighters.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 23:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq sticking with U.S. withdrawal plan despite attacks</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.mosul.us.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.mosul.us.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraq's government said Sunday it won't extend a June deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave Iraqi cities despite concerns about ongoing attacks in cities like Mosul.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi soldier fatally shoots 2 U.S. troops, wounds 3 near Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An Iraqi soldier fatally shot two American soldiers and wounded three others on Saturday, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 23:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide bomb kills 6 in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide bomb was detonated near a coffee shop in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 17:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attacks on Christians in Iraq leave 3 dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.christian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/26/iraq.christian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two attacks on Christian families in the city of Kirkuk on Sunday evening left three people dead and two others wounded, police said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq suicide bombing kills five U.S. soldiers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/10/iraq.soldiers.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/10/iraq.soldiers.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Five U.S. soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul -- the single deadliest attack on U.S. troops in more than a year, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi politician hurt in Mosul attack; U.S. soldier killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/15/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/15/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Insurgents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul placed a bomb on a car carrying a local politician Sunday, wounding him in the blast, according to a Mosul police official.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sectarian violence continues with more bombings in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/12/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/12/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bombings killed at least eight people and left dozens injured Thursday in Mosul and Karbala as sectarian violence continued in Iraqi cities.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:44:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Military: Suicide bomber kills 4 U.S. soldiers in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/09/soldiers.killed.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/09/soldiers.killed.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed four American soldiers and an interpreter Monday, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>String of bomb blasts leaves 4 dead, 14 wounded in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/19/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/19/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three bombings killed an Iraqi official and three police officers and wounded 14 other Iraqis on Sunday evening and Monday morning, according to an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report details abuse of Christians</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/24/iraq.christians.sidebar/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/24/iraq.christians.sidebar/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited several examples in a recent report of abuse toward Christians in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombers 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EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N.: More than half of Iraqi city's Christians have fled</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than half the Christian population has fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in reaction to a campaign of killings and intimidation, according to the United Nations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Car Bomb in Norhern Iraq Kills 4</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852908,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1852908,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A car bomb exploded Wednesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing four civilians, police said</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Christian families flee Mosul after death threats</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/20/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/20/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nearly 600 more Christian families have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul over the past week, amid threats by Muslim extremists to convert to Islam or risk death, an official in Nineveh province said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Men arrested in attacks on Iraqi Christians</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/17/iraq.arrests.christians/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/17/iraq.arrests.christians/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraqi security forces Friday arrested four men in Mosul for allegedly committing criminal attacks against civilians in that northern city, particularly against Christians, a defense ministry spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands of Christians flee Iraq city</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.christians.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/16/iraq.christians.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 6,000 Christians have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week because of killings and death threats, Iraq's Ministry of Immigration and Displaced Persons said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds more Christian families flee Iraq city</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/15/iraq.christians.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/15/iraq.christians.mosul/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The number of Christian families who have fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week has reached 1,350, authorities said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq: Businessman killed as attacks on Christians continue</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Gunmen killed a Christian businessman and wounded his nephew in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, police said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats, officials say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/11/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At least 900 Christian families have fled Mosul in the past week, terrified by a series of killings and threats by Muslim extremists ordering them to convert to Islam or face possible death, officials said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Find journalists' killers, Iraqi PM orders military</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/14/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered security forces to "find the perpetrators" who abducted and killed four Iraqi journalists in the northern city of Mosul.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunmen kill TV employees in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/13/iraq.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Gunmen abducted and killed at least four Iraqi television employees Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi official and the TV station said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. troops may leave by 2011, Iraqi officials say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/07/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraq and the United States are close to reaching a deal under which U.S. combat troops would leave by December 2010 and the rest would leave by the end of 2011, two Iraqi officials said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S., Iraqi police in dispute over deadly airstrike</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/25/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/25/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Police said a U.S. airstrike killed a family of six in northern Iraq, but the U.S. military described it as an attack targeting insurgents that killed one "armed terrorist."</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>May sees lowest U.S. troop death toll in Iraq </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.death.toll/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraq.death.toll/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nineteen U.S. troops were killed in Iraq in May, the fewest killed in any month since the war started.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former Hussein general arrested</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/19/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/19/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A top militant who once served as a general in the military under Saddam Hussein was arrested on Monday, Iraqi officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi leader offers 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bombing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.ceasefire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.ceasefire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A roadside bomb in northern Iraq killed at least five Iraqi soldiers on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry official said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Agency: Millions more in aid needed for Iraqi refugees</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis may have to go without food or health care unless foreign aid increases, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 04:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. says al Qaeda in Iraq leader not captured</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.alqaedafree/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.alqaedafree/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. military in Iraq denied widespread reports Friday that trumpeted the capture of a top Iraqi insurgent leader.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Death toll rises to 50 in Iraq bombing </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/18/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/18/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Bombings killed six Iraqis and wounded 51 in Baghdad and Mosul on Tuesday, and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said the death toll in a suicide bombing the day before in Karbala rose to 50.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Mosul on the Mend?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720613,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720613,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>U.S. officials say violence is dropping, but the prospect of a real turnaround may depend on elections. 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</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Al-Qaeda's Last Iraqi Stronghold  
 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1711846,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1711846,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>On Scene: After a massive detonation of rebel explosives, the U.S. checks out clues to the activities of Mosul's insurgency
</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Child among civilians killed by U.S.-led coalition forces</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Coalition forces killed nine Iraqi civilians, including a child and two women, and wounded three others near Iskandariya, Iraq, over the weekend, police and a U.S. military spokeswoman said Monday. </description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq set for new offensive in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/02/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/02/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraqi political and military leaders and U.S. military commanders have traveled to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul ahead of a planned offensive on al Qaeda in Iraq loyalists, according to a senior U.S. military source. </description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bodies, heads found in northern Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/29/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Violence gripped northern Iraq on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed at least one person in Mosul and authorities found nine bodies and an additional 10 decapitated heads in Diyala province.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Roadside bomb kills 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/28/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A roadside bomb struck a U.S. military patrol in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing five U.S. soldiers, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq sends troops for 'decisive' battle with al Qaeda</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/25/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/25/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iraq is sending troops for a "decisive" battle with al Qaeda in Iraq militants in Mosul -- one of the cities where the fighters remain strong -- Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq to host Iran leader for first time since nations warred</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/24/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/24/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, according to Iraq's Foreign Ministry.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul claim 22 lives </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/23/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide car bomb slammed an Iraqi police patrol in Mosul, Iraq, on Friday afternoon, killing nine people and wounding 21, according to a police official.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi Mosul al Qaeda leader killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/02/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/08/02/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Mosul leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was shot to death by Iraqi soldiers during a combat operation in the northern Iraqi city Wednesday, a U.S. military statement said. </description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi forces thwart jailbreak plot</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/17/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/17/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>At least nine bombings in and near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday were aimed at freeing hundreds of inmates from an Iraqi prison, Iraqi and U.S. military sources said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 14:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq dean, professor killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/16/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/16/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Gunmen killed the dean of the Political Science College and a professor at Mosul University's College of Arts on Monday, authorities said, topping a series of violent incidents.</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands of Iraqis rally for Hezbollah</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Thousands of people marched through the streets of Baghdad on Friday, enthusiastically voicing support for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nearly 1,000 Abu Ghraib detainees released </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/27/iraq.prisoners/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/27/iraq.prisoners/index.html</guid><description>Nearly 1,000 detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released this week at the request of the Iraqi government, Multi-National Forces said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq political workers killed outside Mosque</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Insurgents killed three members of a leading Sunni Arab party on Friday in southern Mosul -- grabbing them off the street, lining them up against the wall of a mosque and shooting them, officials said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi insurgent writes of flawed leadership</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/mosul.letter/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/mosul.letter/index.html</guid><description>A letter apparently written by a rebel leader to terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi decries the insurgency's leadership in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a hotspot in the war.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four die in latest Baghdad violence</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>As U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers continued their offensive in western Iraq, insurgents attacked Iraqi officials and a U.S. convoy in Baghdad, killing at least four people within the last 24 hours, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld: Insurgency could last decade</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/27/iraq.main.intl1400/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/27/iraq.main.intl1400/index.html</guid><description>U.S. President George W. Bush was preparing a major address on the Iraq war as his defense chief predicted the insurgency could last another decade.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mosul attacks kill 33 in one day</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/26/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/26/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Three suicide bombings targeting Iraqi military and police stations killed 15 police officers and 18 civilians Sunday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. military officials said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. military: Al Qaeda leader in Mosul captured</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/16/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/16/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military on Thursday reported the capture of a man described as al Qaeda's leader in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombs kill 13, wound 50 in Iraqi cities</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/02/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Hours after six car bombs rocked separate locations in Baghdad and Mosul, two more exploded late Monday, including one targeting a U.S. military convoy near the Abu Ghraib prison, Iraqi police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 07:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>American kidnapped with Romanian journalists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/30/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/30/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>An American citizen was kidnapped along with the three Romanian journalists abducted Monday in Iraq, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi police report arrest in mosque bombing</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/14/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/14/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraqi police said Monday they have arrested the man responsible for a 2003 bombing in southern Iraq that killed a leading Shiite cleric and more than 80 others.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. military: At least 50 dead in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/11/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/11/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military said Friday the latest reports indicate Thursday's suicide bombing in Mosul killed at least 50 Iraqi civilians and wounded nearly 80 others.</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mosul suicide bombing kills at least 47</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/10/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/10/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim funeral procession killed at least 47 people Thursday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, hospital officials said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi assembly to meet March 16</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/06/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/06/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The newly elected Iraqi National Assembly is scheduled to have its first meeting March 16, political officials have told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2005 07:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq suicide bomb kills at least 125</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/28/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>In the deadliest single insurgent attack of the Iraq war, a suicide car bombing killed 125 people Monday in Hilla where police recruits were waiting to get physicals, Iraqi government and health officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombing near Mosul kills 8, wounds 2</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Eight people were killed and at least two were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded inside a municipal building in northern Iraq, multinational forces officials said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Freed Indonesian hostages speak</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/21/iraq.indonesia.update/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/21/iraq.indonesia.update/index.html</guid><description>Two Indonesian journalists freed by militants in Iraq have spoken about their ordeal, and are reportedly waiting at the Jordanian border for permission to leave Iraq.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Journalists freed, Indonesia says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/21/iraq.indonesia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/21/iraq.indonesia/index.html</guid><description>Two Indonesian journalists taken hostage earlier this week in Iraq have been released, Indonesian officials said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Election eve lock-downs begin in 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Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/17/iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/17/iraq/index.html</guid><description>A Catholic archbishop was kidnapped Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi PM campaigns as election security plans take shape</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/16/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/16/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi campaigned at Baghdad University on Sunday, as Iraqi and U.S. authorities firm up security plans two weeks before election day.</description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S.-led forces mistakenly bomb house near Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/09/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/09/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>At least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 mistakenly bombed a house south of Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Coalition forces bomb house near Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/08/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/08/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>At least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 bombed the wrong target south of Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Baghdad police report 3 rebels killed in gunbattle</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/30/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/30/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraqi police killed three insurgents on Thursday during a gunbattle in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood that was a flashpoint of violence earlier this week, a city police officer said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>28 die after police lured to booby-trapped house</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/29/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/29/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>At least 28 people, including several Iraqi police officers, died Tuesday night when a house exploded in western Baghdad, police said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush:  Troops on 'mission for peace'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/21/bush.mosul/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/21/bush.mosul/index.html</guid><description>President Bush expressed his "heartfelt condolences" to the families of American troops killed in Tuesday's rocket attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, telling reporters they died in "a vital mission for peace."</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rocket attack on U.S. base kills more than 20</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/21/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/21/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A midday rocket attack on a U.S. military base in northern Iraq killed more than 20 people and wounded another 57, U.S. military and civilian officials said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. cancels Iraq's $4.1 billion debt</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/17/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/17/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The Bush administration formally canceled Iraq's $4.1 billion debt to the United States on Friday and urged others to do the same to help the country rebuild.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-Iraqi foreign minister backs call to delay elections</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/26/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/26/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A group of 15 Iraqi political parties, backed by former Iraqi foreign minister Adnan Pachachi, called Friday for a delay in the national elections scheduled for January 30.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Car bomb kills 5 Iraqi police in Baghdad</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/19/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/19/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in eastern Baghdad killed five police officers and wounded 10 other people, police said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:28:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Insurgents target governor in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/18/iraq.mosul/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/18/iraq.mosul/index.html</guid><description>Insurgents fired a mortar round Thursday into the office of Nineveh's provincial governor as American and Iraqi forces attempted to restore order in Mosul, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. commander: Mosul under control</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/17/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>On the second day of increased U.S. and Iraqi security operations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, conditions are more stable, a top U.S. commander said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S., Iraqi forces launch offensive in Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Army and Iraqi forces launched an anti-insurgent offensive Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, a military spokeswoman said, as coalition forces continued a similar assault on rebels in Falluja.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Three Navy SEALs charged in Iraqi man's death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/24/detainee.death.seals/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/24/detainee.death.seals/index.html</guid><description>Three U.S. Navy SEALs have been charged with maltreating an Iraqi detainee who died after he was turned over to the U.S. Army in Mosul in April 2004, the Navy said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Insurgents stage more attacks on Iraqi officials</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/08/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/08/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Insurgents staged more assassination attempts Wednesday against Iraqi officials in Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul -- killing one, wounding one, and missing another.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Militants kill 12 Nepal hostages</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/31/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraqi militants have killed 12 Nepalis they captured just over a week ago, the militants and a Nepalese official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. forces clash with insurgents near Mosul</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/29/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/29/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Clashes between U.S. forces and armed insurgents early Sunday near Mosul, northern Iraq, wounded 34 people, two of them seriously.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fighting in northern Iraq leaves 12 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hall</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/27/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Violence marked the start of the weekend in Iraq as two Iraqi civilians were killed in an attack on Mosul's city hall and five were wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraq police station bomb 'kills 9'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/31/sprj.nirq.intl.wrap/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/31/sprj.nirq.intl.wrap/index.html</guid><description>A car bomb exploded Saturday morning near an Iraqi police station in Iraq's third largest city of Mosul, killing nine people and wounding 44 others, according to news agency reports.</description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:49:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>