His character is drawn as one who is filled with memories of life in Mosul but carries the responsibility of sharing these experiences with the world. Mohammad’s entire body is covered in wounds. His ...

In 1165, Benjamin of Tudela, a medieval Spanish Jewish traveler, approached the city of Mosul on the banks of the Tigris. A visitor, even a thousand years ago, could marvel at its antiquity. "This ...

As Mosul begins to rebuild, The Wall Street Journal looks at what it once was—and what it may yet be again. 2014. The Al-Nuri Mosque. 2017. The mosque after fighting destroyed it. Early Days.

Mosul is perhaps the group’s last major stronghold in Iraq. A Looming Humanitarian Crisis As many as 1.2 million people could be displaced by the fighting in Mosul, according to the United Nations.

In Mosul, ISIS has lost more than a city. Defeat there marks a reversal of the victory that first put ISIS on the map in June 2014. While the Syrian city of Raqqa is its capital, Mosul was where ...

The city of Mosul, though officially retaken by Iraqi forces as of Tuesday, lies in ruins. At the end of nearly nine months of grueling combat, thousands are dead, roughly 900,000 civilians have ...

Kurdish artist/activist Adalet R. Garmiany produced my play The Beauty Inside, in Northern Iraq, Kurdistan Region, in the Kurdish language, with the organization he founded, ArtRole. My play is about ...