President Trump said on Friday that there is "no rush" moving forward with his "Gaza takeover" plan, which he also described ...

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Religious flags wave from rooftops, mosques, and intersections in predominately Shiite areas. Sunni neighborhoods are marked by a lack of flags. "Baghdad is a huge camp, man," says my interpreter ...

Baghdad was also known as the Round City because ... calligraphy on them with words from the holy book, the Qur’an. Mosques had minarets which are thin towers with balconies.

I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people ... round and we’ve put the important things in the middle: Our mosque where we all pray 5 times a day and… This building – the ...