Associated Press
| May 20, 2013
A series of car and suicide bombings in markets and bus stations killed at least 86 people in the latest violence mostly in Shia Muslim sections of Iraq, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 230 and marking some of the worst sect...
Democracy Now!
| Apr 16, 2013
Dave Zirin, Sports Editor of The Nation magazine, responds to the Boston Marathon bombings and discusses the race's historic significance. "First, prayer's for the people in Boston, Baghdad, and Mogadishu who are suffering today," Zirin said. "Sec...
Associated Press
| Apr 15, 2013
Insurgents launched what appeared to be a highly coordinated string of attacks across Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 36 and wounding more than 200, according to officials.
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Mosaic
| Mar 20, 2013
Ten years after the US invasion of Iraq, Al Jazeera reports on conditions in two adjacent neighborhoods in Baghdad. While residents in one believe conditions are better now than they were under the US occupation, those living in the other say the ...
Euronews
| Mar 19, 2013
A series of as many as nine car bombs have killed dozens of people in Shi'ite districts in and around Baghdad. The attacks come on the 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. The bombs exploded near a busy market cl...
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Mosaic
| Mar 15, 2013
Tens years after the US invasion of Iraq, On TV reports that stability is nowhere to be found. Targeted bombings and sectarian violence are leading Iraqis to protest against the policies of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government in growing nu...
The Guardian
| Mar 14, 2013
As the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq nears, the Guardian speaks to analysts and key players and finds their assessment of the war's legacy is bleak. Iraq is deeply corrupt and sliding towards authoritarianism, and the conflict h...
Associated Press
| Feb 17, 2013
A series of car bombs exploded within minutes of each other as Iraqis were out shopping in and around Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 35 people in mainly Shiite areas. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Euronews
| Feb 9, 2013
At least five people have been killed in a dissident camp in Baghdad after a rocket attack. The United Nations mission in Iraq said it was aware of a number of deaths. It's understood one of the dead was a woman while over 20 have been wounded in ...
— Mar 29, 2012 at 12:05 pm
...the 1990 Iraqi invasion of that country. UN chief Ban Ki-moon was also in Baghdad for the summit. While regional officials have pushed to focus ...
— Apr 27, 2012 at 11:01 pm
...action against Syria or even use tough language, thus advancing Iran's agenda at the expense of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which advocate arming th...
— May 26, 2012 at 02:26 am
— Apr 9 at 05:01 am
...2 billion means 36 billion dinars for each checkpoint so there is a surplus in the allocated amount by 180 billion Iraqi dinars. Baghdad council...
Bagdad ist die Hauptstadt des Irak und des gleichnamigen Gouvernements. Sie ist mit 5,4 Millionen Einwohnern eine der größten Städte im Nahen Osten. In der Metropolregion, die weit über die Grenzen des Gouvernements hinausreicht, leben 11,8 Millionen Menschen, was etwa 40 Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung des Iraks entspricht.
Die Stadt ist das politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Zentrum des Landes sowie Sitz der irakischen Regierung, des Parlaments, aller staatlichen und religiösen Zentralbehörden sowie zahlreicher diplomatischer Vertretungen. Bagdad ist der bedeutendste Verkehrsknotenpunkt Iraks und besitzt zahlreiche Universitäten, Hochschulen, Theater, Museen sowie Baudenkmäler.
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