Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...
Historic buildings in Mosul, including churches and mosques, are being reopened following years of devastation resulting from the Iraqi city's takeover by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group.
The Khasfa Well Pit, located south of Mosul, was a mass grave where thousands of victims were dumped during the ISIS era. For more than six years, the site remained covered with sand. Now ...
Efforts are underway to rebuild the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq which was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) ...
Layard tricked Nur-Ullah, and left rapidly to returned to Asheetha. Continued travel towards Mosul. Possible Assyrian ruins found at Challek. Description of bas-reliefs cut into the hill at Malthaiyah ...
These men clearly had no intention of going back. The countryside east of Mosul, and certainly the town of Bartella as well, are riddled with IS tunnels - where militants can seemingly emerge at ...
The tour shows “important landmarks, some of which are destroyed.” Google Arts & Culture, a non-profit initiative, is highlighting Mosul at the moment, in collaboration with Al-Ghad Radio, Iraq.
Their homes stand empty; their synagogues lie in ruins, and their cemeteries are ... In my hometown of Mosul, Jews lived for centuries as an essential part of the city’s social, intellectual ...
Dateline meets the families, estate agents, and heritage activists living in the ruins of Mosul two years after the defeat of IS. With renewed instability in the region can life in the once ...
The Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul, Iraq has been successfully reconstructed after its destruction by Islamic State forces. Unesco led the restoration, using original brickwork to preserve its ...
Mosul's emblematic leaning minaret – known as the Al-Hadba or "hunchback" – has been rebuilt brick by brick, symbolising the rescue of the Iraqi city's priceless heritage after it was reduced to ...
Pope Francis flew into Mosul by helicopter to encourage the binding of sectarian wounds and to pray for the dead of any religion. The 84-year-old pope walked past ruins of houses and churches to a ...