Inside Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, glimmers of a once vibrant and beautiful metropolis strive to shine through its bomb-blasted structures. In October 2016, two years after the Islamic State ...

On June 29, 2014 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, standing on the pulpit of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, declared his caliphate. While the date of the mosque’s capture is redolent with symbolism, the theatrics ...

Mosul Museum in Iraq is launching its first exhibition since the so-called Islamic State smashed its ancient, priceless exhibits on video in February 2015. “Return to Mosul: Conflict, Reconciliation ...

A 1932 photograph showing the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray ...

(Reuters) – Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi’s carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop – the fulfilment of a dream to “to recreate what was demolished” ...

MOSUL, Iraq—Turning the corner from a street where blankets were hanging to obscure the view of enemy snipers, a Humvee roared toward the house where Major Mohammed Ali had set up his command post.

FILE - In this July 11, 2017 file photo, the sun sets behind destroyed buildings in the west side of Mosul, Iraq. For centuries, residents of Mosul have spoken a unique form of Arabic enriched by the ...

Mosul, Iraq – Two years after Iraqi forces captured Mosul from ISIL, residents say neighbourhoods along the riverfront of its Old City risk losing their historical identity due to a plan by local ...