Mosul's lineage is also rich in history and lessons about modern Iraq. In about 850 BC, an Assyrian king, Assurnasirpal II, chose the city of Nimrud - near present-day Mosul - to build the capital ...

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The exhibition halls of Sudan's biggest museum were once filled with statues and relics from centuries of ancient ...

Syria’s civil war drove a wedge between the residents of the small town of Maaloula, where two-thirds are Christian and ...

Each image is a world unto itself—rich in memory and history,” says Efrat Sinai, director of archives at KKL-JNF.The post Passover nostalgia: Rare photos of Israeli celebrations through the decades ...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The main auditorium of the Islamic University of Gaza is a gutted, burned-out wreck. Giant holes ...

US forces have been accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians in the northern city of Mosul during two days of confrontations. The violence underscored that although the worst of the fighting may be ...

Modern cities have well-developed economies and infrastructure, and people enjoy a high standard of living. But prosperity isn't everything. However dynamic a city is, the people's identity is ...

A 3-D rendering from Project Mosul of a lamassu at Nimrud ... projectmosul.org ISIS destroyed this relief from the ancient city of Hatra in 2015. A volunteer reconstructed it using crowdsourced ...