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Mosul is a city in northern Iraq.

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Mosul City in Iraq

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Sharafiya Place in Nineveh, Iraq

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Hamam al-Alil Place in Nineveh, Iraq

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Qayyarah Place in Nineveh, Iraq

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The Hamam al-Alil massacre was the killing of at least 300 civilians in the town of Hamam al-Alil in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in late October and early November 2016. The event took place within a larger ongoing assault on the city of Mosul by a wide coalition of anti-ISIL forces, which managed to capture Hamam al-Alil on 7 November.

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