Baghdad, once the capital of an empire and the centre of the Islamic world, now a far cry from its past glories after being ravaged by years of war and sanctions BAGHDAD, Iraq – Baghdad was once the ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Friday compared President Bush to the Mongol who destroyed Baghdad in 1258. In a televised speech to mark the 12th anniversary of the 1991 U ...

First came the Mongols, then the Ottomans and Persians. Finally, in modern times, the British took Baghdad, sacrificing thousands of lives to wrest it from the Turks during World War I. Over centuries ...