As CNN reported, a drought that caused a severe reduction in water levels in the Mosul Dam reservoir along the Tigris river has revealed a 3,400-year-old palace that was buried below the dam.

Iraqi engineers are warning that a dam which sits just above the bustling city of Mosul in Iraq is ready to burst. If that happens, hundreds of thousands of people may die. "All we can do is hold ...

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

In late February the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad released a statement warning that the Mosul Dam is at a “a serious and unprecedented risk of catastrophic failure with little warning.” ...

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Photographer Emanuele Satolli has been covering the battle for Mosul since it first started. He recently returned as Iraqi forces work to free western neighborhoods from the deadly grip of ISIS.

Turkmens in Mosul, Iraq, see the Development Road project as a vital initiative to address unemployment and bring lasting security and peace to the city, which has endured years of terrorism and ...