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 ...

An Iraqi professor leading a group of students on a walking tour of Baghdad's historic centre invites ... passing an 800-year-old Abbasid palace with an inner courtyard adorned with brick facades ...

This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. I haven't returned to Baghdad to be a war tourist, attuning my eyes to the many long shadows cast by trauma, but it's ...

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 ...

The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar ...

The President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, visited Türkiye at a critical time for both Ankara and Erbil, ...

Iraqi environmentalists have warned that action is needed to tackle pollution in Baghdad, as monitoring organisations declared the capital to have some of the most toxic air quality in the world.

We are taken back over 1,000 years, where a servant in Baghdad is trying to solve a riddle that will allow him to become a scholar. Baghdad at the time was the largest city in the world ...

Leaders from the Middle East and Europe have been meeting in Jordan for talks on security. Their aim is to bring stability to Iraq and the region as it confronts climate change and multiple ...

diplomats and representatives of international organisations gather at the historic Peace Palace to launch an action plan at 'BEYOND125, Securing Our World's Digital Future'. This ambitious plan ...