Baghdad was also known as the Round City because ... calligraphy on them with words from the holy book, the Qur’an. Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies.

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 ...

In Baghdad, a rocket attack on a mosque left three Iraqi civilians dead. The explosion occurred at 6:45 a.m. and it damaged the building and several cars parked nearby, a witness said.

Religious flags wave from rooftops, mosques, and intersections in predominately Shiite areas. Sunni neighborhoods are marked by a lack of flags. "Baghdad is a huge camp, man," says my interpreter ...

BAGHDAD Saturday (AFP) – A wave of bombs targeting Shiite Muslim worshippers at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136 on Friday a month after US troops withdrew from Iraq's ...

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Salwan Momika, originally from Iraq, was facing hate crime charges along with another person after he burnt the Quran in ...

August 1 - Coordinated car bomb attacks on five churches, four in Baghdad and one in Mosul, kill eleven and wound more than forty. August 26 - A mortar attack on a mosque in Kufa kills twenty ...