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 ...

This photo taken on July 28, 2024 shows the Minaret of Jam and the Hari River in the Shahrak District, central Afghanistan's Ghor Province. The Minaret of Jam, along with its archaeological remains, ...

Both sides in Syria’s civil war were in rare agreement Wednesday: The minaret at a 12th-century mosque in Aleppo has been obliterated. Unclear, however, was who destroyed the tower at the Great ...

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 ...

Late last week, a bulldozer toppled a minaret that has watched over the city of Basra, Iraq, for nearly three centuries, leaving local residents dismayed. Minarets like this one serve as the beacons ...

The rival sides in Syria's civil war are blaming each other for the destruction of a medieval minaret at one of the country's best-known mosques. The minaret at Aleppo's ancient Umayyad mosque was ...

A 100-year-old two-storeyed minaret in Assam is being shifted to a new location to pave for the highway. A group of scientists are working on this project to get the ancient structure lifted and ...

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 ...

The 18-meter-high structure, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer, is built on a hill overlooking the city, where it once served as a guiding ...

One of Afghanistan's architectural marvels, the minaret of Jam, is in danger of collapse, officials warn. Centuries of neglect and frequent floods are threatening the 800-year-old structure in remote ...

BEIRUT — The 11th-century minaret of a famed mosque that towered over the narrow stone alleyways of Aleppo's old quarter collapsed Wednesday as rebels and government troops clashed in the streets ...

The minaret is on a list of United Nations world heritage sites, but is now in an 'alarmingly precarious' condition Ben Farmer is Africa Correspondent for The Telegraph and its Global Health Security ...