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A drone view shows the Al-Hadba Minaret in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, which was rebuilt after it was blown up by Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq on January 9, 2025. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, has…
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Iraq’s army accused IS of planting explosives at the site and blowing it up. A United Nations agency said it has discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul’s iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by Islamic State group jihadists, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city. Five “large-scale explosive devices, designed to trigger…
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