Inside Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, glimmers of a once vibrant and beautiful metropolis strive to shine through its bomb-blasted structures. In October 2016, two years after the Islamic State ...

On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray for atonement, the biblical Book of Jonah is read in its entirety. Jews recall the story of how God summons Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh to ...

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in ...

Thus, it comes as a shock to most Muslims to hear of the repeated destruction of mosques and shrines by Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State. The latest example, blowing up the 12th-century Great ...

Speaking from Mosul after the reopening of its historic sites on Monday, Unesco’s Qu Xing told The National that after six years of reconstruction, “valuable lessons for heritage-led recovery can ...

U.S. military officials say violence is dropping around Mosul, where insurgents have for months escalated attacks. In January, U.S. military data show there were more than 500 attacks across Ninewa ...

MOSUL – For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017. Nearly ...