This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in the old city of Mosul, Iraq.

Mosul’s Old City, once a battleground, is now home to a breathtaking work of art: two majestic alabaster gates adorned with ...

This photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows the reconstruction site of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its al-Hadbaa minaret in the ...

In Baghdad, they dominated the spice trade; in Cairo, they helped shape the city ... centuries-old graves, were left in ruin. The historic Jewish quarter—once a vibrant part of Mosul’s ...

"They have been like a mother for us," said the matriarch of a family of Iraqi refugees helped by the International Institute ...

"I know he is very ill and old. I hope he recovers, but it makes me sad." In Iraq's northern city of Mosul, where Francis visited in 2021, at least a dozen churches also held prayers for him.

Still, although Simancas felt he had been swallowed, humpback whales have filter feeders which cannot completely eat someone ...

The Festival of Love planned in the Dutch city of Rotterdam in early March was ... anti-aircraft gun mounted on the rear of a vehicle in Mosul July 16, 2014. (photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER ...

"I know he is very ill and old. I hope he recovers, but it makes me sad." In Iraq's northern city of Mosul, a former bastion of the Islamic State group that Francis visited in 2021, at least a ...

I know he is very ill and old. I hope he recovers, but it makes me sad,” Hector Armando Diaz, 76, a retired sales clerk, told AFP there. Across the world in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul ...