In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural monuments ... was still standing but badly damaged. Now the tower stands ...

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He told SBS Assyrian the damage inflicted on these ancient ... Sculptor Thabet Mekhail standing next to an Assyrian monument destroyed by ISIS in Mosul. Source: Supplied He said many artefacts ...

The monuments that are being rebuilt are ‘unifying elements for the city’, emphasises the Chaldean archbishop, because ‘it is impossible to imagine Mosul without the al-Nuri mosque or the ...

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 ...