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DARK SECRETS: Mosul - The Real Truth

As the World Cup grows more global, many fans still struggle to get there

FIFA has spent decades expanding the World Cup to include more countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East

The Independent UK

Mosul celebrates Iraq's World Cup return

Hundreds of fans gather in Mosul to watch Iraq face France at the World Cup, waving flags, singing and turning a city square into a lively fan zone.

Euronews

‘We ran from monsters’: Once welcomed by Germany after IS genocide, Yazidis are now deported to a life of limbo in refugee camps

The sun burns down on a small village less than 20 miles north-east of Mosul, Iraq. Milisia, 14, and her sister Madlin, 13, greet me at the gate in flawless, almost accent-free German. They lead me into the yard of a grey, rectangular, one-story building where their family rents a…

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Iraq's al-Nouri Mosque officially reopens eight years after being destroyed by ISIS

The so-called Islamic State group detonated explosives at the 12th-century Mosul landmark in 2017.

Euronews

Iraq reopens historic mosque in Mosul 8 years after Islamic State destruction

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's Old City

The Independent UK

Iraq starts mass grave excavation from ISIL (ISIS) carnage south of Mosul

The al-Khasfa site, near Iraq’s second-largest city, could contain 4,000 remains and possibly thousands more.

Al Jazeera

For Iraqi Christians, Pope Francis' visit was a rare moment of hope

The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins

City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace

The Guardian - UK

Iraq's Famed 'Hunchback' Of Mosul Rebuilt Brick By Brick

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State group rule.

International Business Times

Uncovering Iraq’s mass graves: the painstaking search for missing loved ones – photo essay

The country has as many as one million missing people after decades of conflict. Forensic teams face huge challenges to document human remains as families wait in hope of closure

The Guardian - UK

After Islamic State: how writers and poets are reclaiming the soul of Mosul

IS burned 100,000 books when they occupied the Iraqi city. Now, as the arts flourish once again and help to restore social cohesion, the ancient cultural centre is being reborn

The Guardian - UK

Iraqis mourn Nasrallah, vow to ‘continue resisting Israel’

People across Iraq, from Basra to Mosul, take to the streets to show solidarity with Lebanese people and condemn Israel.

Al Jazeera

Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other communities − it also erased their heritage

August 2024 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic State group’s genocide, in which thousands of people from Iraq’s marginalized communities, including Yazidis, Christians and Shiite Muslims, were killed in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, and the surrounding areas.

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UNESCO finds Islamic State group-era bombs in Mosul mosque walls, years after the defeat of IS

The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq

International Business Times

Five IS Bombs Found Hidden In Iconic Iraq Mosque: UN Agency

A United Nations agency said it has discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul's iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by Islamic State group jihadists, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city.

International Business Times

Three Iraqis Remember IS Horrors In Mosul A Decade On

When the Islamic State group rampaged through Iraq's ancient city of Mosul a decade ago, the jihadists killed thousands, upended countless more lives and left deep scars among the survivors.

WEKU

ISIS destroyed his instruments. He made a new one from scraps and composed an album

Musician and composer Ameen Mokdad opens up about his album The Curve, which he composed while living under ISIS occupation in Mosul, Iraq.

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How U.S. war crimes led us here

Israeli forces are emulating what the U.S. did in Mosul, Fallujah and elsewhere. But it's harder to hide

The Guardian - UK

‘It will be slow, very hard’: can Israel achieve its aims in Gaza invasion?

Divisions among Israeli leadership and US doubts are complicating what are already ‘fiendishly difficult’ objectives

The Conversation

Almost a decade ago, the Sunni jihadist network known as the Islamic State (IS) declared the formation of an Islamic Caliphate after they captured the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014.

The Conversation

Mosul faced mass heritage destruction by the Islamic State. We asked residents what they thought about rebuilding

After the Islamic State captured the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in mid-2014, they unleashed a wave of devastating human suffering and unprecedented heritage destruction.

ABC News

How Australian cyber spies used 'Rickrolling' to disrupt Islamic State militants in Iraq

Defeating Islamic State militants required disabling their significant cyber capabilities — and pop star Rick Astley unwittingly played a hand in doing so.

The Guardian - UK

‘I think of drowning myself’: the Iraqi families displaced by a dam – and homeless for 40 years

The village of Jissary was flooded in 1985 to make way for the giant Mosul dam, and its people have been moving between makeshift settlements ever since. Now they face eviction again

Radio France Internationale

France becomes first EU country to open visa service in Mosul, Iraq

France inaugurated a new visa application center in Mosul, northern Iraq, on Wednesday. It is the first European facility of its kind in the city that is being rebuilt after it was retaken from the Islamic State armed group that occupied the town between 2014-17 and used it as its…

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