2014 Event 49 hostages of the Islamic State are freed and returned to Turkey after an operation enacted by the Turkish government after the June kidnapping in Mosul, Iraq; Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not give information regarding its actions 2014 Event Kurdish peshmerga fighters are able to recapture part of the Mosul Dam after U.S. airstrikes push back Islamic State militants 1959 Event Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq 1113 Death Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies
