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

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Located 32 km south of Mosul and 360 km north of Baghdad, Nimrud was the capital of the Assyrian Empire between approximately 1250 BC and 610 BC during the reign of Ashurnasirpal II in the 9th ...