AdvertisementIn Mosul, Grim Homecomings And A Struggle To Survive In A City Now Free From ISISJuly 21, 2017Jane ArraffacebookEmailRuins are all that remain of the 12th century Great Mosque of al-Nuri, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared three years ago that an Islamic state was rising again. ISIS blew the mosque up as Iraqi forces advanced. (NPR)