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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, ...
The Great Mosque of Al-Nuri during its reconstruction in Mosul’s war-ravaged old town. Photo by Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images. By Stephennie Mulder September 29, 2022.
In Ruins, the New Old City of Mosul. Buildings stood for more than 700 years before relentless fighting brought them down. Victor J. Blue December 28, 2018, 9:00 AM EST SHARE ...
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.
Much of the historic Old City in western Mosul has been reduced to rubble, with corpses rotting on the streets or buried under debris. Unexploded bombs and booby traps litter the terrain, as ...
Anti-ISIS obscenties are scrawled on what remains of demolished buildings' walls in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, a now-apocalyptic wasteland destroyed by 2 ½ years of ISIS occupation, and the ...