🚨Breaking: 🏴ISIS destroys historic Mosul minaret
News media are reporting that 🏴 IS jihadists have blown up Mosul's iconic leaning minaret and the adjacent mosque, the Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul.
It was from this medieval mosque that the militants' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a self-styled "caliphate" spanning parts of Syria and Iraq three years ago.
Islamic State's Amaq news agency accused American aircraft of destroying the mosque.
The Iraqi military distributed a picture that appears to show the mosque and minaret flattened in the middle of the small houses of the Old City.
"The Daesh (Islamic State) terror gangs committed another historical crime by blowing up the al-Nuri mosque and its historical al-Hadba minaret," the Iraqi military statement said.
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