The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

The splendid city of Babylon, located between the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris some 60 miles south of Baghdad, was one of them. Unlike the many towns that fell and disappeared ...

Students mill around one of the entrances to Saddam's summer palace (MEE/Tom Westcott) Baghdad has pledged an annual $49m for the next five years to regenerate Babylon, but for Hamdani ...

Ancient cities like Nineveh and Babylon, famous for its Hanging Gardens ... in a sign of growing cooperation between Baghdad and Moscow. Iraq, Syria and Iran are often referred to as the cradle ...

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The Iraqi Prime Minister launched on Thursday the construction works of five new hospitals in different Iraqi provinces.

A base to the south-west of Baghdad used by Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces, was hit in a strike on Tuesday night. At least four people were killed in the strike and others wounded, AFP reported.

He said the government is paying special attention to developing archaeological sites across the various Iraqi cities such as Baghdad, Mosul, Babylon, and Ur, among others. Murad said that Baghdad, ...

A short drive south of Babylon and 90 mi/145 km south of Baghdad, the town of Najaf, along with Karbala, is one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim towns in the world.