Order of battle for the Battle of Mosul (2016–17)

During the course of the Battle of Mosul (2016–17), 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 of Iraq and the Levant, which had used Mosul as the capital for the Iraqi half of its "caliphate".

Anti-ISIL forces
 Iraq
Iraqi Army soldiers, south of Mosul, November 2016.

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)

ICTS convoy in Mosul, February 2017.
ISOF soldiers in Mosul, November 2016.
 Kurdistan Region

Commanded by President Massoud Barzani

Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR)
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis meets with Iraqi Minister of Defense Erfan al-Hiyali in Baghdad, 20 February 2017

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[20]

 United States

 France

 United Kingdom

 Australia

 Hezbollah Commanded by Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

 Iran

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
 ISIL

Military of ISIL

See also

References
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