An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at the Mosul Museum, Iraq. Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the ...

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Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

"Once the city is liberated, there will be an enormous plan of reconstruction of the Museum of Mosul," Sebastien Rey, a lead archaeologist from the Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training ...

Completion of the Revive the Spirit of Mosul initiative ... local Sunni waqf and Iraq's Ministry of Culture, “we decided that these rooms will be accessible as a museum”.

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 ...

Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

In 2015, ISIS destroyed thousands of books in Mosul’s main library, as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches ... ISIS took control of the city. Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, ...

An Iraqi museum is using computer ... Islamic State group fighters captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalising ...