Mosul photographer Ali al-Baroodi recalls the ... "Dead bodies all around, a sickening smell and horrible scenes of the city and the skyline without the Hadba minaret. "It was not the city that ...
It was a symbol not only of Mosul, but of all of Iraq. It even appeared on the 10,000 dinar banknote, hunch and all. When it crumbled from the skyline, the city took on a completely alien ...
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 ...
known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins. "It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all around, a sickening smell and horrible scenes of the ...