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 ...

"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.

"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 ...