"But for the exterior we used 26,000 old bricks" to preserve its historical ... Eighty percent of Mosul's old city was destroyed in the fight against IS, and more than 12,000 tons of rubble ...

The bloodiest battles focused on the Old City, where the group's fighters made a last stand. Mosul photographer Ali al-Baroodi recalls the horror that greeted him when he first entered the area ...

Mosul, a crossroads of commerce and ... a post-Saddam leadership plan convened in the southern city of Nasiriyah near the 4,000-year-old ziggurat at Ur, where the Bible says Abraham was born.

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.

“But for the exterior we used 26,000 old bricks” to preserve its historical ... Eighty percent of Mosul’s old city was destroyed in the fight against IS, and more than 12,000 tons of rubble ...

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.