The bloodiest battles focused on the Old City, where the group's fighters made a last stand. Mosul photographer Ali al-Baroodi recalls the horror that greeted him when he first entered the area ...

In Mosul, the site of some of the fiercest battles between Iraqi security forces and Daesh, Chaldean Archbishop Najeeb Moussa ...

whole families with kids and old people, they run from one house to another, looking for a safer corner. When I entered a house somewhere between the Saddam and Tahrir neighborhoods of Mosul, I ...

It's been some nine months since the guns fell silent in Mosul; almost ten since Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised the Iraqi flag on the edge of the Old City. By then the largest ...

Church bells tolled in Mosul and nearby towns Monday to mark the death of Pope Francis, the first pope to visit Iraq which ...

Pope Francis was a tireless advocate for peace and a steadfast ally of UNESCO. He made a heartfelt case for education and science contributing to the respect and dignity of humanity, as well as the ...

“I met one teacher, 51 years old. She was forced to impart the lessons ... Now she's quite happy because she's in east Mosul in a school that is open again.” UNICEF and other nongovernmental ...

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For the children of Mosul, life took a darker turn when IS took over – as Hussein discovered one terrible day at school. On the last day of his short life, 10-year-old Sami* had something ...