NPR

After Mosque Bombing, Samarra Sunnis Remain Alienated

Two years ago, insurgents blew up a sacred Shiite mosque in Samarra, Iraq. Rather than counter the insurgency, the U.S. military and the Iraqi government shut the city down. Now, the mosque is being ...
Washington Examiner

Minarets of Samarra’s Askaria Mosque Destroyed

The Golden Dome of the al-Askaria Mosque and its two minarets prior to the bombings in 2006 and 2007. Just as U.S. and Iraqi security forces have begun to get the sectarian violence back to pre ...
Washington Examiner

Iraq Report: The Day After Samarra

Yesterday’s destruction of the twin minarets of the revered Askaria mosque in Samarra threatens to reignite the sectarian war which began in February of 2006 after the dome of the same mosque was ...
insider.si.edu

Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): View of the Southwest Corner of the Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil, towards the Old City

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Excavation of Samarra (Iraq): Great Mosque of al-Mutawakkil: View of Western Wall with Large Gate Opening onto Prayer Hall, and Small Door Leading into a Corridor

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