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 ...

If I was going to meet the new Baghdad, I'd have to put some old habits and memories to the side. My first day back I spread out a map of the city on a table in a shaded inner courtyard.

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

Government has built about 200 corrugated iron houses near the Baghdad informal settlement, however, the residents are refusing to move, calling the houses 'tin fish shacks'. Some of the newly ...

Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for an anti-American protest in the Iraqi city of Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Al-Sadr's statement calling for a ...