الموصل
City
Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13Coordinates: 36°20′N 43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13
Country	Iraq
Governorate	Nineveh Governorate
Area
• City	180 km2 (70 sq mi)
Elevation	223 m (732 ft)
Population  (2015)
• City	664,221
• Urban	Unknown (estimates range between 750,000 and 1,500,000
	UNData 1987
Time zone	UTC+3 (AST)

Mosul (Arabic: الموصل <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">al-Mawṣil, Kurdish: مووسڵ, Syriac: ܡܘܨܠ) is a city in the north of Iraq. Under the Ottoman Empire it was the capital of northern Iraq. More than a million people lived there when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conquered it in 2014. In 2017 the Iraqi Army with help from Kurdish Peshmerga troops and other militias took the city back.