After suffering widespread destruction during the militant group's occupation, Mosul has reopened some of its iconic buildings.
It has been a banner year for the restoration of heritage in Mosul, a city rising from the ashes of war and still recovering from three years of occupation by Islamic State (Isis). When it was ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister presided over the official reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in the heart of Mosul’s Old City Monday, eight years after the ...
'The people of Nineveh need your care and attention, and someone to listen to their cries, especially your sons and daughters from the Christian community.' Iraqi Prime Minister reopens the Church of ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (center) with other officials at Mosul Airport. Credit: Iraqi News Agency A rebuilt Mosul Airport (OSM) was formally reopened by Iraqi Prime Minister ...
In Mosul's Old City, the Housh al-Bai'ah complex, once a site of Christian heritage containing four churches, remains largely in ruins with only one church within the complex has been fully restored.
Iraqi Christians react after attending a mass at the Grand Immaculate Church, of Hamdaniya, Nineveh province, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.) Listen Chaldean Archbishop Bashar ...
The letter "N" on the wall of a Christian family's house in Mosul, Iraq, in 2014. The fall of Mosul, Iraq, to ISIS in 2014 wasn't the beginning of the struggle for the city's Christians. Killings, ...
The fall of Mosul, Iraq, to ISIS in 2014 wasn’t the beginning of the struggle for the city’s Christians. Killings, abductions, and threats from armed groups had plagued the community since the 2003 ...
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic ...
Under ISIS, city was rife with abductions, executions, crime Minorities were killed, music banned, ancient sites destroyed Now residents say city is at its most peaceful in 20 years Mosul has new ...
ABSTRACT: This paper explores the relationship between British economic interests, oil exploration, commerce, and imperial policy in Mesopotamia from 1914 to 1918. It focuses on the reasons behind ...