Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu ...

A wax statue of British comedian Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean is on display at the Wax Museum in Baghdad, Iraq, on June 13, 2023. For the first time in Iraq, wax statues of Iraqi and foreign art and ...

Joyous Baghdad residents pelted just about anything they could find Wednesday at the toppled statue of Saddam Hussein ... hour fight near a presidential palace. On Wednesday, there were ...

Inside the Abbasid palace of Baghdad, built in around 12th century. The caliphates (Islamic states) were governed by a caliph. They were the successors to Muhammad. The first major caliphate was ...

passing an 800-year-old Abbasid palace with an inner courtyard adorned with brick facades, arches and arabesque reliefs. A man walks past historic buildings on Rashid Street in central Baghdad ...

Following earlier forays into ancient Damascus and Athens, the forthcoming instalment, Mirage, takes players into ninth-century Baghdad, the capital of ... The massive domed Golden Palace of the ...

Saddam's policy of filling Baghdad and other cities with palaces and statues and portraits of himself ... Iraq's war with Iran in the 1980s. The al-Faw Palace was built on an island in the ...