The oldest mosques in the world bear witness to the spread of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula to across the globe.

the Great Mosque of Sousse and ancient Dougga (north Africa’s best-preserved Roman town). The trip includes a stay in the walled city of Kairouan, little-changed since it was built in the eighth ...

IS detonated a series of explosives inside the al-Nuri mosque as the group retreated in 2017 Mosul photographer Ali al-Baroodi recalls the horror that greeted him when he first entered the area ...

Other major landmarks of Mosul have also been restored - that wriggling minaret of al-Hadba, the Dominican al-Saa'a Convent and the complex of Al-Nouri mosque. And people have been able to return ...