Caliph Al-Mansur ordered the building of Baghdad between AD762 and AD767. There were around 1 million people living in Baghdad by AD900. This made it the largest city in the world at the time.

By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq's Minister of Industry, Khaled Battal Najm, signed a contract with China's Shang Xin company to build ...

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

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They also tried building a skatepark in Kathmandu, Nepal, but the project fell through because, again, they couldn’t find land. In Baghdad, the team’s search could’ve been met with the same ...

Residents of the Baghdad Informal Settlement recently staged a protest outside the Department of Public Works (DPW) head office in the CBD. The protest, held on March 7 was against the Salvokop ...

Thousands of demonstrators stormed Baghdad’s government center and occupied the parliament building Wednesday, during protests against corruption and denouncing the leading candidate to be Iraq ...

Khalil Haj Tawfiq said that the chamber is organising a visit for a Jordanian trade delegation to Baghdad, comprising mainly of sectors with a "strong" opportunity to enter the Iraqi market as ...

Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for an anti-American protest in the Iraqi city of Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. Al-Sadr's statement calling for a ...