Modern revamp threatens to raze riverfront in Mosul’s Old City. Locals fear authorities’ plan to transform historic city into a modern investment hub will erase Mosul’s rich heritage.

MOSUL, IRAQ — A modern, glass-topped tower glistens through dust blowing across this dilapidated Saddam Hussein-era airfield, where commercial planes haven't landed for nearly 15 years. In ...

Exclusive: When Isis first took Mosul, it committed what Unesco called ‘one of the most devastating acts of destruction of library collections in human history’. Now, in anticipation of the ...

In 2017, the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS razed the city to the ground. Approximately 10,000 civilians died. Their families have spent the past five years trying to bring their city back.

Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months. They are in the grips of separate government-led offensives to reclaim the cities from ...

LONDON/MOSUL, IRAQ — It was known as the the Pearl of the North. Mosul traces its history to the 25th century B.C., ... The origins of modern medicine and mathematics can be traced to the city.

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during ...

Much of Mosul's east has made a modest recovery, but the west -- home to the Old City and the museum -- remains in ruins. Recommended For You Music 2025-04-16T18:56:09+00:00 ...

A University of Mosul history professor told the Associated Press extremists began destroying the library – established in 1921 and symbolic of the birth of modern Iraq – earlier this month.

Iraqi sculptor Khaled Al-Abadi's carefully chiselled engravings of lions, chariots, and birds decorate his Mosul workshop - the fulfilment of a dream to "to recreate what was demolished" during ...