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Even so, only yesterday a mortar crew attacked a Shiite gathering in Baghdad, wounding five. A bomb exploded near a mosque in Al Utayfiyah district, injuring three. In Mosul a woman's body was ...

A freelance writer on assignment for The Christian Science Monitor was kidnapped Saturday in western Baghdad, and her Iraqi interpreter was killed, the newspaper said Monday. Jill Carroll, 28, has ...

Baghdad became a centre where knowledge was ... Huge palaces and mosques were the envy of travellers from across the world. Mosque design influenced gothic architecture in Europe, particularly ...

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 ...

The 9th-century Great Mosque and its spiral minaret are among the numerous ... Samarra was the second capital of the Abbasid Caliphate after Baghdad. Following the loss of the monuments of Baghdad, ...

2025 shows the spiraling minaret of Abu Dulaf Mosque on the outskirts of Samarra, in Salahuddin province, Iraq. Samarra Archaeological City, located about 130 km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad ...