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 city as it rebuilds after long years of war. From the pulpit of this medieval mosque on July 4, 2014, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a self-styled ‘caliphate’ spanning parts of Syria and Iraq. Three years later, the ultra hardline group demolished the mosque in the final weeks of a U.S.-backed Iraqi campaign that ousted the jihadists from Mosul, their de facto capital in Iraq. FILE PHOTO: The remains of the Great Mosque of Al-Nuri's Al-Hadba minaret, which was blown up by Islamic State militants in 2017, stands badly damaged in Mosul, Iraq, February 24, 2018. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily Pr...
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