The mosque and its iconic leaning minaret towered over Mosul for over 800 years. — -- The Great Mosque of al-Nuri and its iconic leaning minaret, which has towered over Iraq's second-largest city ...

For centuries, a lopsided minaret has been a defining landmark of the city of Mosul, Iraq. Nicknamed Al-Habda, or “the hunchback,” because of its tilted stance, the minaret was situated within the ...

ISIS destroyed Mosul's al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures Wednesday night, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said. The ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.

The leaning minaret of Al Nuri Mosque, which stood over the alleyways of Mosul’s Old City for almost 850 years before it was destroyed by ISIS, has risen again as a symbol that the northern Iraqi city ...