Hello future people of the UK! I’m going to show you what it’s like to live in the Islamic Golden Age. But to see that you’ll have to travel back in time about 1000 years… Loads before the ...

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Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned in the chaos of 2003, but one of its libraries escaped this fate and a historic collection survived The al-Qadiriyya library holds historic copies of ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Iraqi authorities announced another daytime curfew Saturday for Baghdad and its neighboring provinces, just as mortars struck near a shrine sacred to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- As U.S. soldiers advanced into southern Falluja on Friday, violence and combat intensified across Iraq, with battles flaring in Mosul, Baquba and Baghdad. Adding firepower ...