"When I arrived here in 2019 it looked like a ghost city," Acetoso said. "In five years plus, there has been a massive change." In Mosul on Wednesday, UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay hailed her team's ...

Since January 2019 he has been the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, a metropolis in northern Iraq, considered the “capital” of the Islamic caliphate during the years of jihadist rule.

Objects marked for future restoration at the Mosul Museum in 2019. (via Iraq State Board of Antiquities and Heritage) According to an analysis by Professor Benjamin Isakhan and Professor Lynn Meskell ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again Eli Wizevich History Correspondent A ceremony at the the ...

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Mosul’s Renowned Minaret Restored From Ravages of Islamic State By Khalid al-Mousuly MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret ...