We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.” And what will the dead (or the “raptured”) care about Iraq’s National Library or the Ishtar Gate or the Malwiya Minaret?

The Malwiya, completed in 850AD by the Abbasid dynasty, is one of just three spiral minarets in the world, including the Abu Duluf mosque, also in Samarra, and Cairo’s Bin Toulon mosque.

The Malwiya is truly a great and rather lonely masterpiece.” Many of Iraq’s archaeology sites have been plundered by thieves or damaged by US-led military operations since the US invasion two ...

Iraqi police in the city of Samarra say an explosion has damaged an ancient Islamic monument. Police say insurgents caused an explosion Friday in the top section of the six-story Malwiya mosque ...

BHAGALPUR: The court of RC Malwiya on Saturday sentenced sergeant major Ranjit Pandey to a three-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 3,000 in connection with ADJ Deo Narain Barai assault ...

Ratlam, MP, Jan 12 : The mortal remains of Champalal Malwiya, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan who was killed in the Naxal attack at Latehar in Jharkhand, were cremated with state ...