In 1917, after centuries Ottoman rule, the British marched into Baghdad and conquered the city. This allied victory over one World War I's Central powers was hailed in a letter by Captain L.
I haven't returned to Baghdad to be a ... possible during his reign. After one of the bridges over the Tigris was bombed during the 1991 air campaign of the Gulf War, for example, Saddam vowed ...
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appeared on television early Thursday morning, characterizing the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal acts" and saying his nation would be victorious. "These days ...
Other thunderous detonations resounded from the area of the airport before the all-clear siren ... He said two civilian locations were hit south of Baghdad. After the early air strikes, state ...
The footage starts with an aerial view of a group of nine men walking along mostly-empty streets in Al-Amin, a neighborhood in Baghdad ... the “long war,” which began even before he took ...