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 ...

Mosul is known for many things, but the Al-Hadba minaret is like a distinctive mosque, the tallest structure in the old town. The old town is very, very plain, and suddenly, you see almost a 55 ...

whole families with kids and old people, they run from one house to another, looking for a safer corner. When I entered a house somewhere between the Saddam and Tahrir neighborhoods of Mosul, I ...

The 5000-year-old city, Mosul, which means “the linking point” in Arabic, has been home to diverse communities throughout history. It was in Mesopotamia where many things of our modern ...

Kurdish forces taking part in the offensive to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants are besieging a key town to the north-east. Peshmerga fighters have surrounded Bashiqa ...

"It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all around ... 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 ...

"It was like a ghost town," he says. "Dead bodies all around ... Eighty per cent of the Old City of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris, was destroyed during IS's three-year occupation.