Daesh Destroys Historic Mosul Mosque

Daesh blew up the Grand Al Nuri Mosque of Mosul and its famous leaning minaret on Wednesday, the Iraqi military said, as government forces seeking to expel the group from the city closed in on the site. Media reported that the terror group’s Amaq news agency accused American aircraft of destroying the mosque. The US-led coalition fighting the group denied the claim. The Iraqi military’s media office distributed a picture taken from the air that appears to show the mosque and minaret flattened in the middle of the small houses of the Old City, the historic district where the remnants of Daesh in Mosul are under siege. “The Daesh terror gangs committed another historical crime by blowing up the Al Nuri mosque and its historical Al Hadba minaret,” the Iraqi military said in a statement.