Baghdad, with its population of more than seven million, is one of the largest cities in the Arab world. Intersected by the Tigris River, it was once the center of the Islamic world, known for its ...

Baghdad car bombs kill 200 people, including 25 children, Saturday evening as families gathered to break the Ramadan fast. ISIS claimed responsibility.

Baghdad began Tuesday under its second straight day of strict curfew. But after Mr. Sadr’s announcement, Iraqi security commanders said they were lifting the curfew in the capital and in all the ...

The death toll from a devastating ISIS truck bomb in Baghdad has risen to 292 after dozens more of the wounded succumbed to their injuries, Iraqi officials said Thursday.

Capital Weather Gang Baghdad soars to 125 blistering degrees, its highest temperature on record Extreme heat hits the Middle East, with records falling in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Syria ...

Baghdad — Assailants fatally shot an American aid worker Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The man, whom the U.S ...

A week before Frankenstein in Baghdad was due to be released in the U. S., two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Baghdad’s Tayaran Square, killing 38 and wounding more than a hundred.

Iranian and Gulf Arab officials met in Baghdad on Saturday on the sidelines of a regional summit that Iraq hoped would encourage its neighbours to talk to each other instead of settling scores on ...

Features Baghdad’s Green Zone opens its gates to public after 15 years The fortified Green Zone was partially opened for a two-week trial period that is likely to become permanent.

Iraq bans alcohol in hotels and clubs, bringing country close to near-total ban Alcohol has long been easily accessible in Baghdad, but a crackdown in recent years has made booze much more ...

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival. Body parts of victims lay scattered ...

It was eight years ago this month that Baghdad fell. I was 23 years old the first time I crossed into Baghdad. It was October 1998 — George W. Bush was governor of Texas and Saddam Hussein was ...