On my last evening in Samarra, Kurtzman took me to meet Abu Mohammed, a former insurgent commander turned Sons of Iraq leader. As the muezzin from an adjacent mosque was blaring the post-iftar ...

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic ... there and spread to the other regions of the Islamic world and beyond. The 9th-century Great Mosque and its spiral minaret are among ...

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Cities rise, thrive, and sometimes fade into the backdrop of history ... internal strife. Samarra flourished for nearly sixty years, boasting grand structures like the Great Mosque and its ...

But modern Samarra also has a tragic history. In 2006 the great dome of the famous al-Askari mosque was destroyed by bombs. A year later, the archaeological ruins of the ancient city, which ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)-- Coalition troops killed the al Qaeda terrorist who masterminded the February 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque and set off continuing violence and reprisal killings ...

This photo taken on March 3, 2025 shows the spiraling minaret of Abu Dulaf Mosque on the outskirts of Samarra, in Salahuddin province, Iraq. Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north ...