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Two Caliphates Fall: Mosul Survives
Two Caliphates Fall: Mosul Survives Mosul’s Great Mosque of al-Nuri was in ruins when the city was retaken from jihadists in June 2017 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). “We are Ottomans.” My grandmother said this in 1996. She came from...