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 ...

By then the largest military operation of the last decade had reduced Mosul's historic centre to an eerie ghost town, its residents ... walks through the Old City near ruins of the al-Nouri ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...