minaret

To reach Ghorjomi mosque, one of the biggest, we drove up hairpin mountain lanes, edged with blue hydrangeas, until we spotted the minaret.

The minaret was her husband's idea, and he sketched the initial design.

She watched one tear the minaret off the top of the building.

He saw the gloriously skewed al-Hadba minaret, known as the "hunchback", which had been emblematic of Mosul for hundreds of years, in ruins.

One video surfaced of residents rushing to mosques to announce from minarets that “the dog Bashar has fallen.”