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 ...

"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.

A year ago, the bombing of this city’s revered Shiite mosque ... plans to bring in a brigade of Iraqi forces numbering some 2,500 to secure the site as well as the road leading south from Samarr ...

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 ...

The Great Mosque of Samarra was at one time the largest mosque ... "The expansion idea is a plan sponsored by the Shiite Endowment, and it was imposed on Samarra locals," said Lt.

“This attack may well prove to be the nail in the coffin of the security plan ... Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, is one of four cities in Iraq holy to Shiites. Its Great Mosque ...

The tower is part of and originally adjoined by a bridge to the great mosque of Samarra compex, one of the largest in the world, and completed by the Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil in 852. At the top of ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic ... there and spread to the other regions of the Islamic world and beyond. The 9th-century Great Mosque and its spiral minaret are among ...

On my last evening in Samarra, Kurtzman took me to meet Abu Mohammed, a former insurgent commander turned Sons of Iraq leader. As the muezzin from an adjacent mosque was blaring the post-iftar ...

In 2013, we stopped to look at an aerial photograph of the 9th-century Great Mosque of Samarra, taken by the British Royal Air Force 100 years ago. The black-and-white image shows the vast scale ...

"The Golden Mosque is being ... project has been a great success," said Soluman, "but it is only the beginning. We will continue our efforts until all the people of Samarra have the water they ...

One of the most important Islamic architectural monuments, the Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq is one of many priceless monuments that has been “lost in conflict.” Paying homage to the ...