Mosul’s emblematic leaning minaret – known as the Al-Hadba or “hunchback” – has been rebuilt brick by brick, symbolising the rescue of the Iraqi city’s priceless heritage after it was reduced to rubble in the fight for the capital of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed “caliphate”.
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