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 ...

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 ...

In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural monuments. Some historic buildings are now opening after reconstruction.

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 ...