For almost three years, while her home city of Mosul was under occupation by so-called Islamic State (IS), Tahani Salih kept a daily diary documenting their crimes. Tahani, now 27, filled almost 500 ...

After the fall of Daesh, expressing my artistic freedom and showing the real Mosul was a kind of revenge for me Nearly four years since Daesh's departure, Maslawi artists and musicians are reclaiming ...

MOSUL, Iraq — After ISIS took over this northern Iraqi city in 2014, women weren't allowed to show their faces in public. They had to wear black veils with just slits for their eyes and long black ...

MOSUL, Iraq — Literary cafes, poetry readings and pavement bookstalls — Mosul’s cultural scene is back in business, months after Iraqi forces ousted the Daesh group from the city following three years ...

The tour shows “important landmarks, some of which are destroyed.” Google Arts & Culture, a non-profit initiative, is highlighting Mosul at the moment, in collaboration with Al-Ghad Radio, Iraq. The ...

A week ago, Iraq claimed a “symbolic victory” against ISIS by recapturing the Mosul mosque where the ISIS caliphate declared itself in 2014. Now, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared a ...

The event ‘Empowering Citizens through Heritage Restoration, Culture and Education in Mosul and Basra’ was the opportunity to highlight the achievements and impact of the project ‘Reviving Mosul and ...

Winds of change are blowing across the fertile plains of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province where muslin cotton was once grown in abundance and traded on the Silk Road that passed through the region.

This article, originally published on October 16, 2016, was updated on March 21, 2017. It appears in abridged form in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Kurdish soldiers stood ...