Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...

The bloodiest battles focused on the Old City, where the group's fighters made a last stand. IS detonated a series of explosives inside the al-Nuri mosque as the group retreated in 2017 Mosul ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

The minaret and mosque are the latest landmarks in Mosul to be restored with the help of United Nations heritage body UNESCO, ...

Saad Muhammed Jarjees, who lives in Mosul’s Old City, remembered how he used to look at the Al-Hadbaa Minaret from the window of his house every day — and how his heart sank when it fell.

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 ...

Preparations are underway ahead of the visit of UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to al-Nuri Mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, reconstructed by UNESCO after ...