Eight large, 2,700-year-old wall reliefs were found in Mosul, Iraq near Mashki Gate. The Assyrian carvings survived attempted destruction by militants in 2016.
When militant group fighters bulldozed the ancient monumental Mashki gate in the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2016, it was part of the extremists’ systematic destruction of cultural.
When Russian air strikes kill civilians in Syria, it is big news in U.S. newspapers, but there is near-total silence when U.S. bombs kill civilians in Iraq or Syria, a human rights dilemma addressed by Nicolas J S Davies.
 By Nicolas J S Davies
USA Today reported on April 19 that U.S. air