In 2017, the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS razed the city to the ground. Approximately 10,000 civilians died. ... I crossed into the old town because I hear that it is a massive destruction.

Iraq's second city of Mosul, also known as the city or mother of two springs, is one that has witnessed a great deal of war and destruction in recent years. Following the US invasion, it suffered ...

MOSUL, Iraq — For nearly 2½ miles along the western bank of the Tigris River, hardly a single building is intact. The warren of narrow streets of Mosul’s Old City is a crumpled landscape of ...

Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul's Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq's battle to retake the city from jihadists.Mosques, ...

"When the reconstruction teams arrived in Mosul in 2018, they found a field of rubble," said Azoulay, according to Tages-Anzeiger. "80 percent of the old town had been destroyed," she explained.

Mosul's Old City still lies in ruins three years after intense fighting drove out Islamic State jihadists. With rebuilding unlikely and Iraq's economy in tailspin, homeowners are desperate to sell.

Irbil, Iraq, June 19, 2017 — In reaction to Iraqi forces beginning their assault of the Old City of Mosul, Nora Love, International Rescue Committee’s Iraq acting country director, said: “This will be ...

Abdul Rizak, 15, walks through the Old City near ruins of the al-Nouri mosque, from where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared Isil's caliphate, in Mosul on April 22, 2018.

Iraqi forces on Tuesday recaptured the main government building in Mosul, the central bank branch and the museum where three years ago the militants filmed themselves destroying priceless statues.

MOSUL, Iraq — Mosul's Old City still lies in ruins three years after intense fighting drove out Islamic ... his family is living in a rented apartment across town, on the eastern outskirts of Mosul.