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Iraq

Iraq PM to reopen Mosul’s iconic mosque destroyed by ISIS

2025-09-01

[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan
Sudan

...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i is set to visit the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
on Monday to reopen the historic al-Nuri Mosque, which was leveled during the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s (ISIS) brutal rule over the city, a politician said.

Sherwan Dubardani, a Kurdish politician in the Iraqi parliament from Mosul, told Rudaw that Sudani will visit the city "for the purpose of reopening the al-Nuri Mosque."

The mosque and its iconic minaret - known as al-Hadba - were beloved features in Mosul’s skyline for 850 years. The leaning minaret appears on Iraq’s 10,000 dinar banknote. The site was destroyed by ISIS murderous Moslems in 2017 as Iraqi troops gained ground during the grueling battle to retake the city from the jihadists.

The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
educational, scientific, and cultural organization (UNESCO) led the effort to rebuild the landmark after the war ended. In April 2018, UNESCO, the UAE, and Iraq signed an agreement to rebuild the mosque complex and the minaret. The UAE contributed $50.4 million to the reconstruction.

A UAE delegation and Kurdistan Region Interior Minister Reber Ahmed are also set to attend the reopening ceremony, according to Dubardani.

The minaret was built in 1172 by the ruler Nur al-Din Zengi. It was given the name al-Hadba, meaning the hunchback, in the 14th century when it began to noticeably lean.

The old city of Mosul - Iraq’s second-largest - was the last stronghold for ISIS in Iraq and bore the brunt of fierce festivities that caused widespread destruction of its buildings.

The mosque was famously used by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on July 4, 2014, when he announced his caliphate from the mosque’s pulpit.

ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi territory in a brazen offensive in 2014, but it was declared territorially defeated in 2017 when its so-called caliphate fell to Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, supported by a US-led international coalition, who clawed back lands from the jihadists.

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