Middle East, a new dynasty seized control of one of the world’s greatest empires – the Islamic Caliphate. Though little ...

This was probably first tried out around 3000 BCE in the temples of Sumer, not far from what would become Baghdad ... the English “cipher.” By the Middle Ages, Europe’s demand for Eastern ...

And to court Arabs throughout the Middle East ... into its dark ages. “What you first see of the Caliphs’ city is a most sordid aspect,” she wrote in a dispatch to the Baghdad Times.

Babylon, lying some 45 miles south of modern Baghdad, was once widely regarded ... conquerors used it as building material in the Middle Ages—the pyramids’ majesty, antiquity and bulk continue ...

An invitation to Syria's new President Ahmad al-Sharaa for an Arab League summit in Baghdad has ignited political discord in Iraq. Al-Sharaa, formerly a Sunni Islamist militant, faces an Iraqi ...

The official invitation extended by Iraq to new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An official invitation to new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to attend the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad has triggered sharp political divisions within Iraq. Al-Sharaa ...