Symbol of ISIS defeat and the disaster of the war, the Al-Nuri Mosque has been restored along with Mosul city. A symbol of how a city can rise again from the ruins of war, the al-Nuri mosque is being ...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in ...
Ashwaq skips cheerfully past the rubble of destroyed buildings in Mosul’s Old City, holding her father’s hand as he shows her the streets their family have called home for generations. After years of ...
Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. In 2017, in order to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS, Iraqi, U.S. and coalition forces bombed, shelled and razed ...
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 ...
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MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in ...