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 Old City on the western side of the River Tigris was the heart and soul of Mosul. Now, it lies in ruins. The streets were largely deserted apart from a handful of people and bulldozers.
“Since its construction in the second half of the 12th century CE, al-Nuri Mosque was invested as Mosul’s Great Mosque. It has been a core site in the urban life and development of the Old ...
It's been some nine months since the guns fell silent in Mosul; almost ten since Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Old City. By then the largest ...
The Old City in Mosul used to host the largest population group controlled by ISIS More than 11,500 houses, shops, and buildings were destroyed by airstrikes and 25,000 were partially damaged ...