THIS IS MOSUL NOW! (الموصل): From Ruins to Recovery - Cultural Travel Guide to Iraq's 2nd City

[@vintagestuffguy1998]

Small channel deserving far greater viewership. Very informative and engaging video - great stuff!

[@TravelObscurer]

I agree! Thanks for the great feedback.

[@user-lt4iq5hd5n]

Such a rich culture. One can only hope Iraq recovers from the ashes and becomes once more the country it deserves to be. I would love to visit some time!

[@zaidkashmola7172]

As an Iraqi from mosul I thank you

[@Lucy-iy9ni]

​​@@zaidkashmola7172 the iraqis today are different from the ancient ones before iraq existed, if they saw you claiming them they would roll in their grave.

[@zaidkashmola7172]

@@Lucy-iy9ni that's true but it's not only the community's fault we have a very very corrupt government

[@Pem8888]

This channel deserves 10M subs.

[@sowaveysuyat]

Been looking for updates about Mosul and Iraq after watching a bunch of documentaries, seeing the crazy battles there I'm glad they are rebuilding and looking forward to peace. Great video and narration, I only wish this video was longer!! God bless the people of Iraq and their soldiers who defended their lands.

[@TravelObscurer]

Thanks. Really appreciate the feedback.

[@adrianburn7178]

Thanks for that most interesting look at a place most of us will never visit.

[@TravelObscurer]

Thank you Adrian.

[@aliraid1186]

I invite you to visit it. It has become beautiful and safe, and there are many beautiful tourist places and entertainment areas that were not shown in the video.

[@spectator0916]

Praying for healing in Iraq.

[@jeremyledbetter8022]

Such amazing culture and beautiful resilience of the people! Was it difficult getting there?

[@TravelObscurer]

No, it wasn't difficult, but it wasn't cheap either. I arranged a day trip from Erbil with Kurdistan Expeditions / Rocky Road. However, I understand that western tourists are having more difficulty getting there now due to the political situation. My visit was in October 2023.

[@jeremyledbetter8022]

@@TravelObscurerthank you for the reply! Seems like beautiful people there. What did you think of Mosul?

[@aliraid1186]

​@@jeremyledbetter8022I invite you to visit it. It has become beautiful and safe, and there are many beautiful tourist places and entertainment areas that were not shown in the video. In addition, Mosul International Airport will be restored after a short period, and you can come from it directly and without complications

[@anastasia4068]

Unfortunately people have no other homes, they should be resilient. How beautiful and strong was Iraq. My friends family was escaped from Baghdad to Syria in 2003. They lived their amazing life in Iraq, there was free high education, good price for buying food , petrol, cars, land . They could afford high level of living. New life in Aleppo had started and in 10 Years Syria Was destroyed as a state. There is no any country in the Middle East which is not suffering. It’s regretful. People just want to live , work. But…

[@f4wnz132]

@@anastasia4068 Foreign powers flexing on us and creating internal issues. There. I finished your sentence.

[@CarloPernici]

Beautiful and very useful video. Thanks for doing this!

[@TravelObscurer]

Thanks for the great feedback. Much appreciated.

[@ayshamohammed1397]

I live in Mosul and never ever welcomed ISIS. Dont say all people welcomed these terrorists the majority of people hated them

[@boudaswiss]

شيعي مربع راس يضنون ان سنة دواعش 😂

[@heimstaden4588]

You are probly a pig with no salat

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

[@treyq1982]

amazing how a city that has seen so much war looks much cleaner than the best parts of india

[@نجمالصفار-ز9ج]

Welcome to Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤

[@boudaswiss]

حاب نزور موصل 😢🇩🇿💔😔

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

[@iraq.places]

Welcome to Mosul and Iraq ❤

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

[@arie.3]

My beautiful city suffered a lot but we're doing our best to make it better + i,si,s weren't Muslim

[@luciee8787]

It could be a destination of tourism for the world .long live Iraq .

[@brettlarson3801]

I was part of the final group of US soldiers to leave Mosul in March of 2020, we were based at Saddam’s presidential palace complex near the university. We then went to Erbil Airport. Thank you for this video, I injured my spine in Mosul and am now out of the military, I stayed in Iraq after that injury because I felt committed to the mission and took my service seriously as a 4th generation veteran. I hope to return to Mosul one day.

[@TravelObscurer]

Great to hear from you Brett. I hope you are able to return one day, under very different circumstances. Rebuilding will take a few years but the warmth of the people in Mosul shines through despite the destruction. You may be interested to see the film that I made about Erbil. Only a few miles away but now way ahead in terms of development. Jonathan

[@Taha-db5jk]

Pls never return to Mosul , you are not welcomed there , you people destroyed that beautiful country , always remember that if America never invaded iraq there would be no ISIS...

[@natalieburns92]

Very informative

[@luciee8787]

Give the world an example and live peacefully.

[@نجمالصفار-ز9ج]

Walkam to Iraq ❤❤

[@mikebrown41182]

Evil never wins, its simple as that. It thrives, it comes to qonquer, but it always lose, it's like a thread through the evolution of mankind. The endure of suffering is hard, but we will always rebuild, that is why evil cant sustain, it wont be the first or the last time it shows itself. Glad to see mosul rise from ashes. This is why i always raise my eyes when someone or something with ideology tries to rule, be it with or without religious belief, it does not matter, freedom always win, it can take time for it to be overruled and suffering in between but in the end freedom will prevail. Be it nazi’s germany, be it dictatorship in north korea, be it Putins russia, be it Daesh, the list is endless, fate always makes the evil los, goodness cant be defeated and that is something extra ordinary even if it rips life and invoke sorrow and pain. Long last peace is the next chapter.

[@marciecorda5209]

Wasn't NINIVA - sinful city there before?

[@tuforu4]

Have get rid of KHOMEINI next.

[@fazepearl4537]

Fun fact: we are building the biggest waterpark in the whole of Iraq in Mosul

[@TravelObscurer]

Great. It's time Mosul had some fun!

[@نجمالصفار-ز9ج]

اشتركت في قناتك حظا سعيدا❤

[@TravelObscurer]

Thank you!

[@volcanowater]

8:52 bro that my neighborhood aint no way dawg

[@mohamedomar1162]

Back to life 🎉

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

[@عَراقيههَححرهَ]

Mosul was very beautiful before the war. Oh God, I hope it goes back to how it was 😭💔

[@TravelObscurer]

I hope so too 🙏

[@daydays12]

I am British. I lived in Mosul for one year in the 1970s... I loved it and its people... I still weep at what the Americans through their appalling invasion and their bombing did to the city.... It is shocking that they are not even contributing to the attempts at reconstruction by the brave martyrised people of Mosul. I have several photographs of the lovely people I knew in Mosul back then.

[@TravelObscurer]

@@daydays12 I agree. Whilst my film focussed on the ISIS damage, that awful chapter would not have happened without the American invasion (cheered on by Blair). It's a long way back for Mosul from how it must have looked back in the 1970s.

[@predatorpeo4660]

But this is Iraq, so nobody know what's coming next. best line I heard about my country lol

[@cabdikahinshugricali3989]

Weli mosul weyka muuqataa saameyntii dagaalka 2017/24 isbadal ween laguma sameyn xaga dhismaha

[@abhigarg9540]

“Historically Mosul was a place where Arabs, Christians and Jews co-existed” -> There are Arab Christians too so this statement is a bit misleading.

[@liannasargsyan9202]

Mosul amazing city ❤

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

Hey my english brother were the only city/province that have all Abrahamic religionw and the only to have blondes and blue eyed people in iraq we want to be a part of turkey because the last time the land is turkish and only turkey can keep us safe and rebuild our harmony and alot of mousl have turkish orgin and alot knows turkish also our culture and furniture is stuck with the ottoman one old but uniquely turkish.

[@emadiraq3450]

I am citizen of mosul noone want to be part of turkey

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

@@emadiraq3450 I am litterly there and everyone want to be a part of türkiye and I mean it everyone I just ask a random person in street and he will say yes I want mosul to be part of türkiye. Your a lier unless your the small villages that have the dumbest people

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

@@emadiraq3450 89% of mosul want to be türkiye and I did a survey to prove that and I am living in mosul and some put up the Turkish flag. I think you live in villages where you don't get a say since your just Arab immigrants.

[@inmyopinion651]

I am curious if anyone there saw John Cantlie?

[@TravelObscurer]

I think whatever happened to JC will remain a mystery.

[@inmyopinion651]

@@TravelObscurer Yeah I followed his story for years and realize now he is presumed dead.

[@نجمالصفار-ز9ج]

انا من العراق اشتركت في قناتكم

[@TravelObscurer]

شكراً. Thank you.

[@نجمالصفار-ز9ج]

❤🇮🇶👋

[@mohankumarks3747]

They were brutal because they were all pmccbp 😞 if they were pmrb they were peace loving people

[@gfast901]

Keep filtering out comments that you don't like. People's opinions will not actually change

[@Uuu-im3uw]

تغطيت بسبع بطانيات وبعدني متفشله 🗿

[@piked261]

Such kindness shown by the Americans 😂

[@christking2206]

.🏴‍☠️

[@عثمانالعبيدي-ح3س]

الترجمه الى اللغة العربية

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract with you brother.Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.

[@prestonperez923]

my fiancee is from here

[@michaelheery6303]

Was there in 1980s what a DUMP horror region.

[@Tarek_ElMaddah]

Mossssul … not mozul!

[@NizamUddin-tu3xp]

Hello brother, I'm AMIR ALI. Can i contract anyone Iraqi brother?Actully,I have got scholarship from university of mosul but I don't know this city.