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- Dec 2016
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Behind it, a reservoir eight miles long holds eleven billion cubic metres of water
According to Engineering News-Record, its actually 12.5 billion cubic meters, but that may have been before the maximum water level was reduced to remove stress: http://web.archive.org/web/20030808092931/http://enr.construction.com/news/front2003/archives/030505.asp
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twenty-five miles north of Mosul
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Two months earlier, ISIS had captured Mosul, a city of nearly two million people, as part of a ruthless campaign to build a new caliphate in the Middle East.
Mosul was captured by ISIS forces by June 10th, 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul
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