Inside Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, glimmers of a once vibrant and beautiful metropolis strive to shine through its bomb-blasted structures. In October 2016, two years after the Islamic State ...

Iraqi security forces recaptured the Mosul museum, where Islamic State group militants infamously filmed themselves smashing priceless artefacts, police said on Tuesday. Iraqi forces “recaptured the ...

The arduous process, says the Smithsonian’s Richard Kurin, is “a victory over violent extremism” Dr. Richard Kurin | Ambassador at Large, Smithsonian Institution Engineers concluded that the museum ...

Last week marked the anniversary of ISIS's attack on the Mosul Cultural Museum. Archaeologist and Mosul Cultural Museum director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah and the museum's head of conservation, Saad Ahmed ...

MOSUL, Iraq(Reuters) - A raven perched on the shoulder of a woman with flaming hair is Iraqi artist Marwan Fathi's symbol for the terrible events he and his home city Mosul have had to endure. Three ...

Established in 1952 and designed by modernist architect Mohamed Makiya, the Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) is the second largest in Iraq and home to vast collections of prehistoric, Assyrian, Hatran, and ...

Mosul's celebrated museum has not recovered since Islamic State group jihadists ravaged its ancient treasures several years ago, but part of the complex reopened Tuesday to showcase more contemporary ...

A video released on Thursday by ISIS shows members of the terrorist organization destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts at the Mosul Museum and the nearby Nineveh archaeological site. “The prophet ...

Fakhri al-Tai and his family live among some 5,000 antiques in Mosul. His home has now turned into a public makeshift museum, aiming to preserve the city's heritage. After many artefacts were ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Mosul Museum once held hand-chiseled reliefs and statues from three ...

Mosul Museum in Iraq is launching its first exhibition since the so-called Islamic State smashed its ancient, priceless exhibits on video in February 2015. “Return to Mosul: Conflict, Reconciliation ...

When Islamic State gunmen stormed the Mosul Cultural Museum and filmed themselves taking sledgehammers to 3,000-year-old Assyrian statues in 2015, museum director Zaid Ghazi watched the images online ...