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

But for the people in Mosul, this catastrophe is still in its early days and will get worse. I have been covering conflicts and wars all over the world for the last 27 years. I keep getting ...

The IS fighters were not deterred by UNESCO World Heritage status and destroyed ancient cities such as Hatra and Nineveh. They began destroying monuments, churches, and mosques in conquered areas of ...

One of the oldest traditions of Ramadan is waking people up with the sound of drums before the pre-dawn meal. Although this ...

An elderly man has been standing for years on the streets near Mosul University, offering books for free to anyone who wants to borrow them. Many of those who take the books are students from the ...

“This mosque is considered the identity of Mosul’s people,” said Mohammed Khalil Al-Assaf, an imam in the city. “When we came here today to see the Al-Hadbaa Minaret, we were reminded of ...

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, famous for its leaning eight-century ... ‘Heritage knows no boundaries - he warns - and reflects a place and a people, not just a religion.

'15 minutes from Mosul' tells the stories of people who've escaped a life of violence under the so called Islamic State terrorist group in Northern Iraq, in the time it takes to travel from ...

"We started by trying first to gather the team - a team composed of people from Old Mosul from different denominations - Christians, Muslims working all together," he says. Father Poquillon says ...

"We started by trying first to gather the team - a team composed of people from Old Mosul from different denominations - Christians, Muslims working all together," he says. Image caption, Under IS, ...