“UNESCO and the University of Mosul submitted a survey to the local population, and we asked them to choose between two alternatives: Either we rebuild the minaret as it was, or we leave it in ...

More than 100 classrooms were renovated in Mosul. Thousands of historical fragments were recovered and catalogued from the rubble. Among the host of engineers involved in the rebuilding ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including ...

Thabet Mekhail is working tirelessly to restore and rebuild ancient Assyrian artefacts that were damaged and destroyed during the devastating ISIS occupation of Mosul in Iraq. Iraq’s second ...

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Sura Noori arrived in Mosul prepared to see destruction ... she had been working remotely from Baghdad to assist the engineers rebuilding Al Qayara Power Plant, 64 miles south of the city.

The Khasfa Well Pit, located south of Mosul, was a mass grave where thousands of victims were dumped during the ISIS era. For more than six years, the site remained covered with sand. Now ...

Now she's quite happy because she's in east Mosul in a school that is open again.” UNICEF and other nongovernmental organizations are helping to rebuild schools and make sure children have ...

Located 32 km south of Mosul and 360 km north of Baghdad ... the largest number of artifacts possible so that we can begin rebuilding the grand palace in the next phase,” Ismail said.