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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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.

The UNHCR report said ISIS had “deployed what it calls the ‘sons of the caliphate’ in the alleys of the old town of Mosul, wearing explosive belts.

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.

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, ...

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.

MOSUL, Iraq — Mosul's Old City still lies in ruins three years after intense fighting drove out Daesh terrorists. With rebuilding unlikely and Iraq's economy in tailspin, homeowners are desperate to ...