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When the Islamic State (ISIS) took control of Mosul in June 2014, one of its first actions was the destruction of the ... who aim to establish a virtual museum that allows visitors to explore ...
Reflection on ISIS’s destruction of the city permits renewed ... as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches, mosques, and religious sites also succumbed to the group’s violence.
Thabet Mekhail is working tirelessly to restore and rebuild ancient Assyrian artefacts that were damaged and destroyed during the devastating ISIS occupation ... of the Mosul museum," he said.
Analysis from an office of the Holocaust Museum ... in fact. ISIS atrocities against Christians became public in June 2014 when the jihadists stamped Christian homes in Mosul with the red letter ...
Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale offensive on Mosul to dislodge ISIS fighters, more than a hundred villages have been liberated. But the battle for Mosul continues.
ISIS razed the city’s ruins ... person to receive all the reports about the destruction—it’s very bad, psychologically.” The National Museum is a grandiose affair dating from the interwar ...
A luxury hotel stamped with Islamic State logos. Rifle-wielding fighters chaperoning kids at an amusement park. Such is life through the lens of ISIS propaganda in the besieged Iraqi city of Mosul.
A 3-D rendering from Project Mosul of a ... to acts of historical destruction. Next month, the Institute for Digital Archaeology, a project from Harvard, Oxford and the Museum of the Future ...
Copy and paste the code in your html to embed this video, making sure to credit Cineuropa: The documentary questions what it means to be a son of Isis in Iraq today, a country that has fought a ...
For the children of Mosul, life took a darker turn when IS took over – as Hussein discovered one terrible day at school. On the last day of his short life, 10-year-old Sami* had something ...
In June 2014, ISIS militants seized control of the city ... These elements endured until the destruction of Mosul’s Old City ...