A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: ...

Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people. The Tigris River roughly bisects the vast city ...

Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

Memories like these reenact themselves in my mind now as we drive through the city, and for a moment I imagine I've returned to Baghdad the way a ghost might haunt the world it once inhabited.

(JTA) — In the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire was looking to conscript men into its army, including the several thousand young Jewish ones who were living in the city of Baghdad. The Jewish ...

Narrator: In 762, the city of Baghdad was established by Al-Mansur. The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants.

Baghdad was the vibrant epicentre of the movement. Protesters also organised cultural and sports events before the demonstrations were crushed in a brutal crackdown that saw more than 600 people ...

Where the country of Iraq will be one day. You made it! I’m Ali. I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people and the most advanced city in the world. We made the city completely ...