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

This photo taken on March 3, 2025 shows the spiraling minaret of Abu Dulaf Mosque on the outskirts ... km north of Iraqi capital Baghdad, contains the remains of an iconic Islamic city that ...

Fasting is half the prayer, the other half is patience,” said Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238–1325), the revered Sufi saint.

Two centuries-old mosques, one of the Arab world's oldest universities, an 800-year-old castle, the oldest church in the city, and the former seat of Baghdad's government during the days of the ...

Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa was born in October 1982 in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first seven years of his life. In a rare ...

Throughout the MENA region, once-mighty capitals shaped empires and cultures before being overshadowed by new power centers.

Then, cameras still in tow, Sharaa went to the city’s historic Umayyad mosque to announce that ... About two weeks before bombs began falling on Baghdad in March 2003, Sharaa made his way ...

In 1833 the French poet Alphonse de Lamartine witnessed a dazzling procession of thousands of camels entering the city, bringing mocha coffee and Indian shawls from Baghdad. Damascene artisans were ...