Muslim youth volunteers help repair Catholic monastery A group of young Muslim volunteers helped clean and fix the Catholic monastery of St. George in Mosul, Iraq, as a sign that this city is also for Christians. In a post...
On Sunday, Haider al-Abadi, the prime minister of Iraq, visited Mosul to herald the success of his army’s nine-month struggle to recapture the city from the Islamic State. In a speech on state television the next day, he declared “the end and...
Iraq’s democracy shows resiliency Joseph Pennington State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for Iraq USA TODAY US Edition 18 Jul 2017 The Iraqi victory over the Islamic State in Mosul is something that both Iraqis and Americans can celebrate. Iraqis...
By Bushra Shakhshir | ERBIL, IRAQ https://cdscdn.reuters.com/r04/6/6/5/0/05521/u-8001-mp4-h264-640x360-25-300-1200000-aac-1-44100-96000.mp4 (Reuters) – As Iraqi forces fight to retake the northern city of Mosul from ISIS, an artist in nearby Erbil is chiseling at clay in a tiny, unheated...
Iraq is assessing the rehabilitation needs of the ancient city of Hatra, near Mosul in the country’s north, after retaking it from the Islamic State (IS) on April 26. The jihadist group had occupied the site since 2014 and...
The Christian-Muslim Symbiosis of Mosul Amir Harrak | Professor of Middle Eastern Society, University of Toronto Christianity in Mosul dates to the time of the Apostles. Initially, the faith was centered on the side of the Tigris opposite present...
In this critical time, Voices for Iraq would like to extend to the families of the victims, in Belgium, our heartfelt condolences. VFI also, would like to call on all the countries that have been hardest hit by terrorist attacks...
Noted from a United Nations’ dispatch today “Many Iraqis come from Baghdad, which remains under government control, and many left Mosul before and after its fall to ISIS and crossed on foot to Turkey.” LESVOS, 13 October 2015 (IRIN)...
Efforts to protect cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq during the ongoing humanitarian crisis in that area of the world will be the focus of Brian Daniels’ talk Sept. 22 at Vanderbilt’s Cohen Memorial Hall. Daniels will deliver the...
An official said the tourism and antiquities ministry had received reports from its employees in Mosul, which is controlled by the radical Islamist group, that the site at Hatra had been demolished. A nearby resident said he heard a...