The visual transformation of the river is already apparent. Once known for its shimmering blue waters, the Tigris has taken ...

A Tale of Two Cities In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: ...

But things have changed. This isn't the Baghdad I once knew. Just off Abu Nuwas Street near the Tigris River, where sniper fire was once a daily hazard, the sounds of war have been replaced by the ...

The House of Wisdom was a huge learning centre where people studied. Image caption, The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops). Baghdad was built close ...

Baghdad’s libraries were looted and burned ... they burned the libraries and threw so many books into the River Tigris that the water ran black from the ink - Abdulsalem Abdulkareem, librarian ...

The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops). The River Tigris in Baghdad was used for trade, travel and irrigation (watering crops). Many trade routes ...

19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south of Baghdad from the Tigris River Wednesday.

The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) headquarters, designed by the UK-based Zaha Hadid Architects, is a new landmark on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad. Now the tallest building in the city ...

Archeologists say a 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Iraq after extreme drought conditions led to decreased water levels along the Tigris River. German and Kurdish archeologists recently ...

Almost a century ago, on October 15, 1927, the forerunner of BP struck oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. An uncontrollable fountain of oil, 95,000 barrels per day, shot into the air for 10 days, ...