The Nouri Mosque as it stands in Mosul, Iraq, May 14, 2018. The Great Mosque of al-Nuri was destroyed by the Islamic State on June 21, 2017. It was on the steps of this mosque that ISIS was announced as a caliphate. Stabilization and restoration efforts are in place and progressing now that ISIS is defeated militarily in Iraq.

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