The UN body has brought several religious and other buildings in the Iraqi city back to life as part of an $115 million ...

A UNESCO-led project is restoring historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul, including the Al-Hadbaa Minaret and key churches, after ...

The Al-Hadba or "hunchback" minaret is part of the historic Al-Nuri Mosque from where former IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in ...

The Al-Hadbaa Minaret in Mosul, destroyed by ISIS in 2017, has been rebuilt through a major international initiative led by ...

The al-Hadba minaret in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2017. UNESCO has been restoring the minaret for years. It was reopened in a ceremony on Wednesday.

“We are glad that hundreds of thousands of workers are involved in this project.” 'Post-ISIS Mosul needs roads, development most' Ganim noted the devastation Mosul suffered during the ...

A UN project to rebuild some of Iraq’s most famous religious sites has restored cultural vitality and social fabric to the ...

More than 500 artefacts were found shattered at the site, located about 30km from Mosul, the city in northern Iraq where ISIS established the capital of their self-declared “caliphate”.

In 2014, the ISIS seized Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and declared itself a caliphate – a state governed by Islamic principles. However, the leaders of the group did not define what were ...

MOSUL — The minaret is reborn ... and it played a key role in its development. In 2014, ISIS raised its flag on top of the mosque, and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, proclaimed the birth ...

Although a punishing Iraqi and American military campaign routed ISIS from a mosque in Mosul — its "Caliphate" — in 2017, it also leveled large swathes of the city. Now, special correspondent ...