By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq's Minister of Industry, Khaled Battal Najm, signed a contract with China's Shang Xin company to build ...

Thousands of demonstrators stormed Baghdad’s government center and occupied the parliament building Wednesday, during protests against corruption and denouncing the leading candidate to be Iraq ...

Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767. There were around 1 million people living in Baghdad by AD900. This made it the largest city in the world at the time.

Leander City Council approved a contract with Joe Bland Construction for infrastructure projects to increase water flow to ...

A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

They also tried building a skatepark in Kathmandu, Nepal, but the project fell through because, again, they couldn’t find land. In Baghdad, the team’s search could’ve been met with the same ...

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Baghdad at the time was the largest city in the world, with a population of about 1 million. It was a perfectly round city, with all the important buildings in the centre. Situated between two ...

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 ...