In the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Bashar al Mashhadani, imam of the Sheikh Abdulqadir al Gailani Mosque in Baghdad said the mosque was preparing to serve 1,000 free meals per day to people coming to ...

Religious flags wave from rooftops, mosques, and intersections in predominately Shiite areas. Sunni neighborhoods are marked by a lack of flags. "Baghdad is a huge camp, man," says my interpreter ...

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U.S. troops seized a weapons cache in a western Baghdad mosque, the military reported Friday. Twenty-three suspected insurgents and three Muslim clerics were detained. Two U.S. soldiers were ...

Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, contains the remains of an iconic Islamic ...

But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent envoys to him to discuss last week's government offensive in Basra. The offensive sparked fighting between security forces in other ...

Following the loss of the monuments of Baghdad, Samarra represents the only physical trace of the Caliphate at its height. The city preserves two of the largest mosques (Al-Malwiya and Abu Dulaf) and ...

Baghdad was also known as the Round City because ... calligraphy on them with words from the holy book, the Qur’an. Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies.

I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people ... round and we’ve put the important things in the middle: Our mosque where we all pray 5 times a day and… This building – the ...

Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, contains the remains of an iconic Islamic ...