I lost my voice. I lost my mind." Eighty per cent of the Old City of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris, was destroyed during IS's three-year occupation. It was not just the churches ...

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

Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive on Mosul to dislodge ISIS fighters, more than a hundred villages have been liberated. But the battle for Mosul continues.

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After three years of suffering under ISIS occupation, the protracted battle plunged Mosul into even deeper misery. 54,000 homes were destroyed across the city and surrounding areas. Hundreds of ...

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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 ...

Libraries destroyed. Thousands of books and manuscripts ... Now she's quite happy because she's in east Mosul in a school that is open again.” UNICEF and other nongovernmental organizations ...

"When the reconstruction teams arrived in Mosul in 2018, they found a field of rubble," said Azoulay, according to Tages-Anzeiger. "80 percent of the old town had been destroyed," she explained.

I fell silent after that for a couple of days. I lost my voice. I lost my mind." Eighty per cent of the Old City of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris, was destroyed during IS's three-year ...