MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For over 850 years ... remembered how he used to look at the Al-Hadbaa Minaret from the window of his house every day — and how his heart sank when it fell.

“War has practically been a constant in Iraq ... one house to another, looking for a safer corner. When I entered a house somewhere between the Saddam and Tahrir neighborhoods of Mosul, I ...

MOSUL, Iraq - Soldiers advance through the rubble ... an ERD soldier to climb through a hole smashed through the wall of a house in Mosul Old City (Martyn Aim/MEE) In the first four days of ...

MOSUL: The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its ... and Our Lady of the Hour churches and 124 heritage houses. The Al-Tahira Church, dating from 1862, has been ...