Baghdad is a city that looms large in the American imagination. In 2003, at the start of the last Iraq war, it was occupied by U.S. troops. In the years that followed, thousands of U.S. citizens ...

It seems that Baghdad is in the news every day as a result of the war in Iraq, but once upon a time, this ancient city was a leading world center of culture and education. Here’s a brief look at its ...

Erin Rice is a Contributor from the United States. She has a Master of Arts in Composition and Rhetoric and works as a professor and Academic Advisor. She has been writing about video games for a ...

Iraq's capital city is already seeing record heat — up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit. A report predicts more 120-plus degree days to come. And the... Baghdad is already pretty hot. And it's likely to get ...

Strings of bulbs festooning the Imam Kazim shrine’s four majestic minarets light up the sky over Baghdad’s Shiite Kazimiyah neighborhood, attracting thousands of nighttime worshippers. Coffee houses ...

Baghdad (AFP) – An Iraqi professor leading a group of students on a walking tour of Baghdad's historic centre invites them to stop and admire a centuries-old stone wall erected to shield the city from ...

In the first of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s extraordinary series of films to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, he investigates the claims that the US military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The boy's smile faded when he heard the word "American." "Ishta!" he said to the American. "Leave!" And he waved his hand as if he were chasing away flies from his fruit stand. In ...

Baghdad is now a traumatized city, a cantonized, divided city, Sunnis against Shia. It has become a desperate city of walls. My high school used to be down there, and it was so easy for us to go from ...

BAGHDAD — The municipal headaches that greet Alaa Tamimi each morning might send many big-city mayors diving under the covers. Services are woeful, starting with a drinking-water supply that is only ...

In a statement published on its website late on Wednesday, the city council cited damage done to the city by the erection of concrete blast walls, seen throughout the Iraqi capital, as well as the use ...