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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry said on Wednesday that Erbil and Baghdad have ...
Fallujah and Iraq's Anbar province, home to some of the toughest fighting during the U.S. presence in Iraq, now resounds with ...
"We doubled up on Baghdad," the president claims. "Panama City; Brasilia, San Jose, Costa Rica; Bogota, Colombia." ...
Iraq and Syria held talks in Baghdad on reviving the Kirkuk-Baniyas oil pipeline, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office said. The meeting took place ...
Baghdad's municipality is launching a major afforestation campaign, including planting one million trees at the Al-Rasheed ...
The Bulwark's Sam Stein discusses the president's announcement he will deploy approximately 800 National Guard troops to ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s oil ministry is “very close” to reaching a final agreement with the Kurdistan Region to resume oil exports, a senior ministry official told Rudaw on Wednesday, adding ...
In a quiet corner of Baghdad, gardening volunteer Abdul Karim Abbas is using a mosque-yard-turned-tree nursery to fight one of Iraq’s most pressing threats: desertification. Fiona Jones reports.
Iraq’s prime minister has approved disciplinary measures against senior commanders in a paramilitary force after clashes with ...
Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group ” explores this important chapter of Arab modern art in an expansive survey ...
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The Fall of Baghdad - Mongol Conquest of 1258

In 1258, Hulagu Khan led a Mongol army to the gates of Baghdad, demanding submission from the Abbasid Caliph. The refusal led to one of the most devastating sackings in world history.
Iraqi Kurdistan will resume oil exports through a pipeline to Turkey after a two-year halt, Iraq's federal government said on ...