Mosul celebrates anniversary of IS defeat with military parade
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(10 Dec 2018) Iraq's second largest city of Mosul on Monday celebrated the one-year anniversary of the defeat of Islamic State group with a military parade. The government declared victory last December after a gruelling three-year war in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. The government declared Monday a national holiday and celebrations took place countrywide. The battle for Mosul was Iraq's longest and most punishing conventional fight against IS in the more than three-year war against the extremists. IS forces captured Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a matter of days in the summer of 2014. These days, IS is still fighting to hold onto a small pocket of territory in Syria, near the Iraqi border. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/123477d195a7e43249c1e231ee1358c9
