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Historic Nuri mosque in Mosul, destroyed by ISIS, being repaired

November 14, 2024 by Johnny Tran

The Nuri mosque in Mosul was constructed in the 12th century. “Since its construction in the second half of the 12th century CE, Al-Nouri Mosque was invested as Mosul’s Great Mosque. It has been a core site in the urban life and development of the Old City of Mosul,” UNESCO says. Central to the … Read more

Life returns to Iraq’s Mosul, 10 years post-ISIS

June 10, 2024 by Johnny Tran

It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State had become since it was liberated in 2017. “I thought for a second, ‘where am I?’” said Zakaria, who left the … Read more