Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies. Doors and windows were often designed as arches. The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops).

Saddam City, as it's listed on my old map, for example ... crew attacked a Shiite gathering in Baghdad, wounding five. A bomb exploded near a mosque in Al Utayfiyah district, injuring three.

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 ...

Several hundred years old ... beautiful mosque complex which houses the shrine of Sheikh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, an 11th-century Persian scholar who lived most of his adult life in Baghdad ...

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 ...

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Amid the rubble of the seven-century-old Great Omari Mosque library, Palestinian researcher Hanin al-Amassi carefully holds the remnants of ancient books and manuscripts. She gently removes the ...