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 ...

Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months. They are in the grips of separate government-led offensives to reclaim the cities from ...

A bicyclist rides by the destroyed old mosque and tomb of Nabi Jerjis, also known as Saint George, in central Mosul in July 2014. AP Mosul is an ancient city on the banks of the Tigris River, adjacent ...

Mosul Museum in Iraq is launching its first exhibition since the so-called Islamic State smashed its ancient, priceless exhibits on video in February 2015. “Return to Mosul: Conflict, Reconciliation ...

A 1932 photograph showing the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. On Yom Kippur each year, as Jews around the world pray ...

Almost exactly two years ago, a group of nearly 100,000 Iraqis joined forces to push ISIS out of the northern city of Mosul. This episode, we meet a historian from Mosul named Omar Mohammed at a café ...

MOSUL, Iraq --The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul is in ruins. Piles of rubble fill exhibition halls and a massive fire in the building’s basement has reduced hundreds of rare books and ...

The mosque was built in 1172 by one of the most renowned Sunni generals of the medieval period, she writes Muslims consider mosques to be the houses of God, the bayt Allah. They are places of worship, ...

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 has long been known for its religious diversity. Iraq's second largest city has been home to Persians, Arabs, Turks, and Christians of all denominations since it was first believed to have been ...