During the course of the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), an international coalition, primarily composed of the Iraqi Army, Kurdish Peshmerga, CJTF–OIR, along with the allied Popular Mobilization Forces, Company A, 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), captured Mosul from the Islamic State, which had used Mosul as the capital for the Iraqi half of its "caliphate".
Anti-IS forces
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Commanded by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah (commander of the operation), Major General Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri (ISF commander of the operation)
Iraqi Army
1st Division[1]- 9th Armored Division[1]
Commanded by Lieutenant General Qassim Jassem Nazal - 15th Division[1]
- 16th Division[1]
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Iraqi Air Force
Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS)
Commanded by Lieutenant General Talib Shaghati al-Kenan (Joint Military Operation Command), Lieutenant General Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi, Lieutenant General Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi
Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF)
- 1st Special Operations Brigade ("Golden Division")
Commanded by Major General Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari - 2nd Special Operations Brigade
Commanded by Major General Maan al-Saadi[4]
- 1st Special Operations Brigade ("Golden Division")
Federal Police
Commanded by Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat- Iraqi police rapid response units
Commanded by Major General Thamer al-Husseini
- Iraqi police rapid response units
Assyrian forces
Nineveh Plain Protection Units[5]
Commanded by General Behnam Abboosh- Nineveh Plain Forces[6]
Commanded by Safaa Khamro - Dwekh Nawsha[7]
Commanded by Albert Kisso 
Babylon Brigades[8][9]
Commanded by Rayan al-Kildani, a Chaldean Catholic Assyrian with close ties to the Badr Organization
- Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)[10]
Commanded by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis
Badr Organization[11]
Commanded by Hadi Al-Amiri- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq[11]
Commanded by Qais al-Khazali - Peace Companies
- Kata'ib Hezbollah[12]
- Saraya Ashura[11]
- Saraya Khorasani[11]
- Kata'ib al-Imam Ali[11]
- Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba[11]
Turkmen Brigades[13]- Saraya al-Jihad[14]
- 39th Regiment[15]
- Sinjar Alliance
Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ)[16][17][18][19]
Commanded by Mazlum Shengal
Êzîdxan Women's Units (YJÊ)[16][17][18][19]
Commanded by Berivan Arin
- Local residents[20]
Commanded by President Massoud Barzani
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Commanded by Lieutenant General Stephen J. Townsend
- Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJFLCC-OIR)
Commanded by Major General Joseph M. Martin[21]
United States Army
- 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)[22]
- 2nd Brigade Combat Team
- 2-502 Infantry Regiment
- 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)[22]
U.S. Marine Corps[23]
Commanded by Major General Gary J. Volesky
U.S. Air Force
Commanded by Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah
- Hezbollah military
- Hezbollah units in Iraq
Commanded by Muhammad Kawarithmi[31]
- Hezbollah units in Iraq
Islamic State
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- Wilayat Nineveh
- Al-Khansaa Brigade
- Australian Brigade
- Islamic Police (Al-Hisbah)
- Tariq Bin Ziyad battalion[33]
- Ramadi brigade (under Kawasir Division)
- Fallujah brigade (under Yamama Division)
- 3 brigade from Furqan division
- Abu Umar al-Baghdadi brigade (under fatah division)
- Tikrit brigade (under Qadisiya division)[34]
See also
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- ^ "NPF declaring their participation to Mosul offensive". Syriac International News Agency. 18 October 2016. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
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- ^ Bill Roggio; Caleb Weiss (28 October 2016). "Hezbollah Brigades hurries troops to Mosul fight". The Long War Journal. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "وکالة تسنیم الدولیة للأنباء – اردوغان ارسل جيشه الى العراق تجنبا لانقلاب ثانٍ.. لا حاجة للتركمان بتركيا". وکالة تسنیم الدولیة للأنباء (in Arabic). Retrieved 2017-04-20.
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- ^ a b "All-female Yazidi militia launches operation for revenge on Isis in northern Iraq". The Independent. 14 November 2016. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24.
- ^ a b "YJŞ/YBŞ: Our goal is to liberate every village of Ezidxan". ANF News. 13 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Iraqi gov't to fund terrorist PKK's Yazidi branch from its 2017 budget". Daily Sabah. 1 December 2016. Archived from the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
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- ^ "CJFLCC-OIR". Archived from the original on 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
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- ^ "Mosul offensive: officials confirm US troops are on the ground". The Guardian. 17 October 2016.
- ^ "L'artillerie française soutient les forces irakiennes pour libérer Mossoul". Le Figaro. 1 November 2016.
- ^ "On board the French nuclear carrier battling ISIS". 17 October 2016.
- ^ a b Arab, The New (2016-09-24). "Germany 'will take part in the battle for Mosul'". Newarab. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ^ Berthiaume, Lee (17 October 2016). "Canadian troops supporting Kurds in fight to free Mosul from ISIS". CBC Television. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Turkey fires at ISIL positions near Mosul". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ^ "RAF jets join strikes on Islamic State targets in Mosul". 19 October 2016.
- ^ "Australian bombers and medics playing key role in the battle for Mosul". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 February 2017.
- ^ Daoud, David (5 November 2016). "Hezbollah fighters train Iraqi Shiite militants near Mosul". Long War Journal. Archived from the original on 6 November 2016.
- ^ "Iranian sniper embedded in Iraqi militia killed near Mosul | FDD's Long War Journal". www.longwarjournal.org. March 2, 2017.
- ^ "Isis file reveals 'problem' foreign fighters are refusing to fight in Iraq". The Independent. 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24.
- ^ Mentioned by IS linked channel Sawt al-Zarqawi