Former Iraqi MP Joseph Sliwa provides an update on his campaign urging authorities in Mosul to abandon a road expansion project which has destroyed a section of the ancient Wall of Nineveh.

an ancient Assyrian heritage site is being bulldozed by heavy earth-moving machinery. (705-681 BCE) and which stretches 12km along the city of Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), is being partially bulldozed ...

They date back to the Assyrian King Sennacherib, who ruled the ancient city of Nineveh from 705 to 681 BC, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage said, in a statement seen by AFP.