Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 years was destroyed.

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