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 ...

In the spring of 2004, coalition troops put down an insurrection that had developed into one of the largest, bloodiest and most significant battles of the Iraq War. Outnumbered and overextended.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Khalil Ibrahim’s four sons are among thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric staging a sit-in outside Iraq’s parliament after storming the building last week in ...

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 ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims have gathered in Karbala, Iraq, for Ashoura, a holy day commemorating Imam Hussein’s martyrdom ...

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.