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Pope Francis shakes hands with officials after their meeting for the Pope's departure ceremony at the Ajaccio airport, on the French island of Corsica, December 15, 2024. (Ludovic Marin; Pool via AP)
December 17, 2024, 5:02 pm
Pope Francis was target of attempted suicide attack on 2021 trip to Iraq, he says
‘A woman packed with explosives…was heading to Mosul to blow herself up,’ pontiff recalls in upcoming autobiography; would-be bombers apparently killed by police, Francis says
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Fleeing Iraqi civilians pass the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against the Islamic State in the Old City of Mosul, July 4, 2017. (AP/Felipe Dana)
June 30, 2024, 3:26 pm
UNESCO finds Islamic State bombs in Mosul mosque walls, years after group’s defeat
A decade ago, Al-Baghdadi declared caliphate from the house of worship, which was destroyed by ISIS in 2017; UN body says five large-scale devices found concealed in prayer hall
By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD
Israeli soldiers patrol next to communities near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, October 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
October 24, 2023, 5:05 am
US said concerned that Israel lacks achievable goals for Gaza op and IDF isn’t ready
Officials indicate Israel still hasn’t decided whether it wants to launch major ground offensive or carry out combo of surgical strikes and targeted raids against Hamas terrorists
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
A view of the Mosul Museum in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on May 11, 2023 (Waleed AL-KHALED / AFP)
May 11, 2023, 5:59 pm
Mosul Museum to reopen after 20-year closure, Iraq war and Islamic State ransacking
Iraqi officials announce famed museum, currently undergoing rehabilitation with international assistance, will open doors in 2026
By AFP
A view of a relief in Hebrew at the Prophet Nahum synagogue (dating in its present form to the year 1796), in Iraq's northern town of al-Qosh, some 50 kilometres north of Mosul, February 3, 2022. (Ismael ADNAN / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 9:20 am
Ancient heritage of Iraq’s last few Jews at risk as synagogues fall into ruin
Rare international efforts to save remnants are not enough to preserve what is left of a once-thriving Jewish community
By Salam Faraj
Defendant Jennifer W. arrives in a courtroom for her trial in Munich, Germany, Oct. 25, 2021 (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)
October 25, 2021, 1:44 pm
German Islamic State woman gets 10 years for war crime death of Yazidi girl
Jennifer Wenisch guilty of crimes against humanity for enslavement, aiding child’s killing, membership of terror group; 5-year-old was chained up outside in Mosul, died of thirst
By Ralf ISERMANN
ISIS fighters parade in commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicles down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after taking over the country's second largest city, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo)
October 25, 2021, 10:18 am
German woman who joined IS faces verdict over murder of Yazidi girl, 5, in Iraq
Jennifer Wenisch and husband ‘bought’ woman and child as slaves in Mosul; girl was chained up outside and died ‘agonizing death of thirst in the scorching heat,’ say prosecutors
By Femke COLBORNE
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) is welcomed upon his arrival at the Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul, in the northern Nineveh province, on August 29, 2021. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
August 29, 2021, 2:40 pm
Macron tours sites in Mosul ravaged by fighting with Islamic State
French president meets Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, a 28-year-old Yazidi activist who was forced into sexual slavery by IS fighters
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon visit at a restaurant in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. Photo by a Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
March 7, 2021, 2:29 pm
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By ToI Staff
Pope Francis, surrounded by shells of destroyed churches, attends a prayer for the victims of war at Hosh al-Bieaa Church Square, in Mosul, Iraq, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 7, 2021, 11:48 am
Amid Mosul church ruins, Pope laments ‘barbarous blow’ of extremism in Iraq
At site of four churches demolished by Islamic State, Francis calls for peace in the ‘cradle of civilization’
By Nicole Winfield and SAMYA KULLAB
Known only as Mosul Eye, an anonymous blogger documenting Islamic State’s atrocities, Iraq's Omar Mohammed reveals his identity in Europe on December 5, 2017. (AP Photo)
September 11, 2020, 4:09 pm
The man who risked everything to report from IS-controlled Mosul
Under alias ‘Mosul Eye,’ historian Omar Mohammed used Twitter and blogs to document beheadings, torture in his Iraqi hometown before fleeing in 2017. His work continues from Paris
By Shaul Adar
People inspect the destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, in Mosul, Iraq, on July 24, 2014. (AP)
October 2, 2019, 1:51 pm
Ahead of Yom Kippur, remembering Mosul’s rich and diverse past
Ravaged by Islamic State, Iraqi city is home to the now-destroyed Mosque of the Prophet Jonah, Monastery of Elijah, and Mosque of al-Nuri
By Stephennie Mulder
Fleeing Iraqi civilians walk past the heavily damaged al-Nuri mosque as Iraqi forces continue their advance against Islamic State militants in Iraq's Old City of Mosul, July 4, 2017. (Felipe Dana/AP)
September 12, 2019, 12:44 am
Reconstruction of landmark Mosul mosque to begin in 2020
UNESCO chief asks that some of $100 million earmarked for restoration of Iraqi city go to synagogue and Christian religious sites
By AP and ToI Staff
Necati Senturk, governor of Turkey's Kirsehir province, wielding a double bladed scimitar in a speech in mid-March 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 22, 2018, 2:45 pm
Scimitar-wielding Turkish governor vows to conquer Jerusalem
Necati Senturk retires due to age days after impassioned speech from office balcony; says ‘going out at the peak is most auspicious’
By AFP and ToI Staff
An Iraqi man, from the Shabak community, stands amidst the rubble of a house which was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in the village of Baz Gerkan east of Mosul on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahman Al-Rubaye)
January 16, 2018, 1:15 pm
Minorities in north Iraq look to post-jihadist future
With victory declared against the Islamic State group, ethnic and religious minorities are reclaiming their place within the country’s fractured society
By Sarah Benhaida
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