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 ...

One City Block in Iraq -- Now and Then. ... BAGHDAD, Aug. 30, 2010— -- When a huge car bomb aimed at a church in the heart of Baghdad shattered an apartment building in 2004, ...

Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops ...

Khalil Ibrahim, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq. In the years since, there have been over 4,700 U.S. and allied troop deaths, and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Meanwhile, questions ...

I t was the summer of 2004 on one of those boiling hot days in Baghdad. Mazin Al-Eshaiker was stuck in a major traffic jam in the city’s Karrada district. Assassinations. insurgent attacks and ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

The so-called "Baghdad Batteries" have been claimed to be an ancient, rudimentary way of storing power, but are they really ...

Khalil Ibrahim, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.

Residents of the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Sadr City say they support an influential Shiite cleric who called on thousands of his followers to storm Iraq's parliament.