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Satellite-tracking Islamic State’s archaeological destruction

ISIS deliberately destroyed cultural heritage during its occupation of northern Iraq. Satellite and drone images revealed the damage as it unfolded.

360info

Russia's war crimes — and ours

Americans are rightfully horrified by Mariupol. But most of us don't even know what the U.S. did in Mosul or Raqqa

Salon

Iraqi man alleging 35 family members were killed by Australian airstrike denied compensation

Man applied to Australian government for act of grace payment over Mosul strike targeting Islamic State in 2017

The Guardian - AU

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Iraq Digs Up Mass Grave Containing Bodies of ISIS Militants

Iraqi authorities said Sunday that they had exhumed the remains of 85 ISIS militants and their relatives from a mass grave in the northern city of Mosul. The remains of 35 people killed between 2016 and 2017 were dug up on Saturday while 50 were found on Sunday and "work…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Mosul's Old City Rises from Rubble in War-scarred Iraq

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, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the ISIS group seized…

Asharq Al-Awsat

War 101: What it means to "take" a city

Russia's attack on Ukraine is stupid, pointless, destructive and remarkably vicious. That's what happens in war

Salon

‘A symbol of new beginning’: Mosul’s university library reopens

The institution suffered a devastating attack by Islamic State in 2014. Eight years on, an international effort has seen it reopen as ‘a lighthouse of knowledge’

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‘I feel free when I run’: the young women enjoying a sense of freedom in Iraq

Displaced Iraqi girls stuck in camps are getting a taste of independence by running, hiking and kickboxing, thanks to a programme teaching them about sport and confidence

The Guardian - UK

Iraqis Queue for Petrol in Mosul amid Shortages

Motorists in Iraq's main northern city of Mosul queued for hours on Friday to fill up their cars with petrol, with authorities blaming shortages on smuggling to the nearby Kurdistan region. For the past week, long lines have formed at petrol stations in Mosul and the rest of Nineveh province,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Iraq’s Mosul, Library Rises from Ashes of ISIS Reign

The storied library of Iraq's Mosul University boasted a million titles before ISIS militants rampaged through it, toppling book shelves and burning ancient texts. Now, almost five years after their defeat, the war-battered northern metropolis is trying to rebuild the pride of the city long known as a literature hub…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Profile: Who was Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi?

Al-Qurayshi was a shadowy and brutal figure who led ISIL when under intense military pressure from US and allied forces.

Al Jazeera

Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, Islamic State's slain leader

Abu Ibrahim al-Quraishi, a religious scholar and former soldier in Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s army, led Islamic State from the shadows for a little over two years before he blew himself up during a raid by U.S. forces on a house in northern Syria.

Reuters

Factbox-After the fall, Islamic State strikes from Iraq and Syria hinterlands

Nearly three years after their self-declared caliphate was dismantled and their forces defeated in a battle by the Euphrates river, Islamic State fighters are waging a guerrilla campaign from remote regions of Iraq and Syria.

Reuters

12th Century Prayer Room Found under Mosque in Iraq’s Mosul

The foundations of a prayer hall from the 12th century have been discovered under the Al-Nuri mosque -- where the ISIS group once proclaimed their so-called "caliphate" -- in Iraq's Mosul, site managers said Tuesday. The mosque, which along with its iconic leaning minaret was severely damaged by ISIS during…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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