The Baghdad I knew: Before and after the fall by Jeff Severns Guntzel 04/12/2011 02/02/2012. ... Until the war in 2003, those sanctions seemed to be about the worst thing that could happen to Iraq.

The Battle for Baghdad's Future. Three Years After Its Fall, Capital Is Pivotal to U.S. Success in Iraq, Officers Say. April 8, 2006. By John Ward Anderson. and ...

The war in Iraq changed things in Baghdad, the Middle East and around the world. Join host Neal Conan and guests for a discussion about American power and shifts in the world order after the war.

BAGHDAD – Baghdad's Green Zone has been a barometer for tension and conflict in Iraq for nearly two decades. The 4-square mile (10-square kilometer) heavily guarded strip on the banks of the ...

A M M A N, Jordan, Aug. 5 -- On a scorching summer afternoon, two women in tight-fitting black clothes and shiny silver shoes slowly make their way to the entrance of the once-luxurious al-Rasheed ...

Baghdad was a much different city back then. One-third of Baghdad's population was Jewish before World War I and by mid-century the city had a population of barely more than a half-million people.

Baghdad 2003. Alexandra Boulat was escorted by her government minders to photograph a hundred or so foreign Arab fighters at a military training camp south of Baghdad before the Iraq War.

BAGHDAD — At least 1,700 Iraqi civilians died and more than 8,000 were injured in Baghdad during the war and in the weeks afterward, according to a Los Angeles Times survey of records from 27 ...

BAGHDAD -- In the chaotic, hopeful April of 2003, Baghdad's Karrada district was one of those neighborhoods where residents showered flowers on U.S. forces entering the capital.

When Islamic armies were the most powerful in the world, conquerors of Asia Minor and North Africa, and poised at the gates of Europe in the 8th century, Abu Hanifa, founder of a school of law in ...