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 ...

Last week marked the anniversary of ISIS's attack on the Mosul Cultural Museum. Archaeologist and Mosul Cultural Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah and the museum's head of conservation, Saad Ahmed ...

The arduous process, says the Smithsonian’s Richard Kurin, is “a victory over violent extremism” Dr. Richard Kurin | Ambassador at Large, Smithsonian Institution Engineers concluded that the museum ...

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — 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 ...

Established in 1952 and designed by modernist architect Mohamed Makiya, the Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) is the second largest in Iraq and home to vast collections of prehistoric, Assyrian, Hatran, and ...

Mosul's celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to showcase more contemporary ...

When Islamic State gunmen stormed the Mosul Cultural Museum and filmed themselves taking sledgehammers to 3,000-year-old Assyrian statues in 2015, museum director Zaid Ghazi watched the images online ...

A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nineveh archaeological site. “The prophet ...

IS pushed over this Assyrian sculpture before defacing the cuneiform writing with jackhammers. (MEE/Tom Westcott) Five years ago, Mosul Museum grabbed international headlines when the Islamic State ...

Fakhri al-Tai and his family live among some 5,000 antiques in Mosul. His home has now turned into a public makeshift museum, aiming to preserve the city's heritage. After many artefacts were ...

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 ...

MOSUL, IraqMOSUL, Iraq — Anan Yasoun rebuilt her home with yellow cement slabs amid the rubble of Mosul, a brightly colored manifestation of resilience in a city ...