After years of careful restoration work, Mosul’s skyline has reclaimed one of its most beloved symbols, with Unesco placing the final brick in the city’s landmark Al Nuri Mosque minaret.
The mosque and minaret were destroyed in June 2017 during the battle to oust IS from Mosul, and Iraq's authorities accused the jihadists of planting explosives before their withdrawal. The minaret ...
in Iraq. Erected in the 12th century, the Al-Nouri mosque was known for its famous leaning 131-foot-tall minaret, from which it received its nickname "the hunchback". In 2017, however, the ...
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has been renovated in a boost for Iraq’s second city as it rebuilds ...
The US ups the stakes with militants in Iraq as more violence unfolds with the latest major attack being a "massacre" in a mosque that left 70 worshippers dead US Deputy National Security Advisor ...