Iraqi students walk through Bab al-Wastani on a walking tour of the historic centre of Baghdad — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE An Iraqi professor ... admire a centuries-old stone wall erected to shield the city ...

Baghdad reigned for a time as the world's most important city, capital of an empire that ... plexiglass covers the outlines of what an official tour guide, Intesar Al Samarai, said are the ...

The tour group climbed several sets of steps ... said what had surprised him most about Baghdad was the city’s quiet at night. Much of that, of course, is due to Baghdad’s nighttime curfew.

Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people. The Tigris River roughly bisects the vast city ...

Iraq’s prime minister toured a Baghdad neighborhood on foot Wednesday ... said some residents of the eastern neighborhood of Sadr City congratulated him for surviving Sunday’s drone attack ...

Baghdad (AFP) – An Iraqi professor leading a group of students on a walking tour of Baghdad's historic centre invites them to stop and admire a centuries-old stone wall erected to shield the ...