The plan to guard the road to Samarra and secure the workers rebuilding the shattered mosque has been debated for months since the United Nations started negotiating with Iraqi officials about ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ... artistic innovations that developed there and spread to the other regions of the Islamic world and beyond. The ...

The Great Mosque of Samarra is located in Samarra city, in Iraq, about 120 km north of Baghdad, on the banks of the Tigris River. It was built in the 9th century, and commissioned by the Abbasid ...

Viewed from the rooftop of a nearby building, the men restoring Al-Askari Mosque ... Samarra," says Mahmood, a dour but earnest former fighter pilot. He talks about a five-year development plan ...

"This is a great day for Samarra, and a great day for ... developed the plan to leave T-walls around the mosque in place until a new permanent protective structure is built, said Ghayath.

The work will include the reconstruction of floors and walls in accordance with UNESCO specifications. The tower is part of and originally adjoined by a bridge to the great mosque of Samarra compex, ...

People visit the Spiral Minaret of the Great Mosque as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr in Samarra, 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Baghdad, Aug. 20, 2012. — REUTERS/Bakr al-Azzawi ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Coalition troops killed the al Qaeda terrorist who masterminded the February 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque and set off continuing violence and reprisal killings ...

The Malwiya, completed in 850AD by the Abbasid dynasty, is one of just three spiral minarets in the world, including the Abu Duluf mosque, also in Samarra ... is truly a great and rather lonely ...

The Malwiya, completed in 850AD by the Abbasid dynasty, is one of just three spiral minarets in the world, including the Abu Duluf mosque, also in Samarra ... is truly a great and rather lonely ...