UAE to Fund $50.4M Project to Rebuild Mosul's Grand Al-Nuri Mosque

The United Arab Emirates will finance a $50.4 million project to rebuild Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque, famous for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, that was blown up by Islamic State militants last year, the United Nations said Monday. Reconstruction and restoration of the mosque and al-Hadba minaret will be in partnership with the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, Iraq's culture ministry and the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), Dubai's media office said in a Twitter post.