Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...
An ISIS militant uses a power tool to destroy an Assyrian winged bull at the Mosul Museum, Iraq. Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the ...
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UNESCO’s experience in Mosul will shape its approach to restoring other cultural sites in war-torn areas — including neighboring Syria, which is now starting to emerge from nearly 14 years of ...
Statues in Mosul's museum were also attacked ... After recapturing the city's eastern flank, special forces are now fighting their way through the west in an offensive that began on Sunday.
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as well as artifacts at the Mosul Museum. Churches, mosques, and religious sites also succumbed to the group’s violence. The tomb of Jonah was destroyed in the summer of 2014, soon after ISIS ...
It was destroyed by ISIS militants in 2017 and is now undergoing extensive ... he concludes - a small museum has been set up that traces the Pope's visit and in Mosul a cultural centre has been ...
An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual ... seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalising or destroying a swathe of cultural sites across the country.
Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.