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).

Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767 ... on them with words from the holy book, the Qur’an. Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies.

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.

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In addition to the shrine, two Sunni mosques were attacked late Friday in southwest Baghdad by a "large number of men" wielding a variety of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades ...

U.S. troops seized a weapons cache in a western Baghdad mosque, the military reported Friday. Twenty-three suspected insurgents and three Muslim clerics were detained. Two U.S. soldiers were ...