A decision by Iraqi officials to demolish a 300-year-old religious spire and tourist attraction in the city of Basra has prompted outcries from the local community. For three centuries, the al-Siraji ...

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has been renovated in a boost for Iraq's second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man walks past the rubble of a demolished al-Siraji Mosque in Basra, Iraq, on Monday, July 17, 2023. An official said the old ...

Things have changed gradually and steadily at Baltimore’s biggest mosque since Hanan Williams started working there 17 years ago. The modest building that once constituted the Islamic Society of ...

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — For three centuries, the al-Siraji Mosque, with its minaret fashioned from weathered bricks and its pinnacle inlaid with blue ceramic tiles, was a distinctive feature of the city of ...

Announcing this, Semnan Governor Mehdi Samimian told IRNA on Monday that the minaret of Jameh Mosque is a historical, heritage and millennial monument that should become the brand of Semnan. Referring ...

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BASRA, Iraq — For three centuries, the al-Siraji Mosque, with its minaret fashioned from weathered bricks and its pinnacle inlaid with blue ceramic tiles, was a distinctive feature of the city of ...