Baghdad

Iraq had a much richer country, you look at the streets of Baghdad now, who do not scared to go on the road be terrified!

Furthermore, Shia-led government that the American props up in Baghdad thinks of Iran as its best foreign friend. it's irony of ironies.

But much is still up in the air in Iraq and Mr Shahristani's ambitions have often been foiled by disagreements within Baghdad's power elite.

Three months later, Seelaus, who'd never been away from his family more than a few days, arrived in central Iraq, 42 miles north of Baghdad.

He gave no hint that he was in Iraq at Contingency Operating Base Adder, only a few hours' drive south of Baghdad.

A little under an hour later another suicide bomber blew himself up in central Baghdad, killing at least four and wounding 10 others.

HAIFA STREET evokes more dread than almost any other place in Baghdad.

But just as the prospect of normality seemed at last to beckon, Baghdad was shaken by one of the year's bloodiest bunch of bombings.

Abizaid said the sectarian violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, is as bad as he has ever witnessed.

Most of them were car bombs, but there was at least one roadside bomb and later a salvo of four mortars hit an area in southwest Baghdad.

A few days ago, I attended a wake for two of their Iraqi staff, a photographer and a driver who were killed in Baghdad in July.

"It's near Baghdad and is the one site where you used to see Iraqis going to get a sense of their past, " she said.

Our commanders on the ground are constantly adjusting their approach to stay ahead of the enemy, particularly in Baghdad.

Even now, two and a half years since the war, Baghdad has electricity for only a few hours a day.

As the U. S. leaders were in Baghdad, bombs in the capital killed at least four people, including a policeman, and wounded several others.

Observers in Baghdad say it is not clear whether the measure will come up for a vote, and is unlikely to pass if it does.

And Mr Haass was also right to see that necessity stopped well short of Baghdad and the removal of Saddam.

I believe that if we were precipitously to withdraw from Baghdad at this point, there would be a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.

And, a group of celebrities, accompanied by the head of the Pentagon, arrived in Baghdad to help boost morale among U. S. troops in Iraq.

A year-and-a-half ago, under orders from Baghdad, the Iraqi army retook the city. Hundreds of militiamen were killed.

As a result, he said, the United States changed its strategy, sending more troops to help secure Baghdad and reduce sectarian violence.

Or rather, he threw two. Both were aimed at the head of George W. Bush, as he gave a press conference in Baghdad this weekend.

She said she was being moved soon to a psychiatric hospital in Baghdad, and she was afraid.

It was the deadliest single attack on American soldiers in Baghdad since the height of the troop buildup here last summer.

Apart from his captors and lawyers, Aziz, says he has not seen or spoken to a foreigner since the fall of Baghdad.

The United States has told all personnel at its embassy in Baghdad not to leave reinforced structures in the Green Zone.

On Saturday an estimated 50, 000 supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr marched in Baghdad to call for US troops to leave Iraq.

She said she was acting on behalf of insurgents based in the volatile Diyala province, north of Baghdad.

But years later Ms Jaber finds him back in Baghdad, his exams unfinished and without the prosthetics which he found too heavy.

In Baghdad a senior Iraqi traffic officer was assassinated on his way to work.

Thursday's attack on the convention center as well as a truck bombing on a major Baghdad bridge in the same day, struck blows to the U.

Affected by this threat, some Christians in Baghdad did not participate in this year's Christmas celebration.

In fact when he got off the plane in Baghdad he said, 'Boy, Arizona is hot.

A BBC Baghdad correspondent, however, says critics have questioned the government's timing with parliamentary elections only a week away.

The Iraqi army says at least 22 people are dead after a bomb tore through a busy square in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad today.

And the place we're at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq.

Above, a defaced cross on the door of a former Christian seminary school in the south Dora neighborhood of Baghdad.

One potential wrinkle is Baghdad, which still has no official agreement with Kurdish authorities on managing the region's oil.

Speaking to reporters on Monday in Baghdad, General George Casey said he expects a gradual evolution that will take months to show results.

Iraqi authorities say at least 18 people were killed in an insurgent attack in a Baghdad car garage Tuesday.

From the interwar period a number of schools sprang up in Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus and Tunis.

Dwyer served in Iraq with 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment as the unit headed into Baghdad at the beginning of the war.

Due to the absurdity of the driving practices here, I feel about as safe living in Hangzhou as I would feel if I lived in Baghdad.

Our commanders on the groundareconstantly adjustingtheirapproachto stay ahead of the enemy, particularly in Baghdad.

The engineers were in Baghdad to carry out repairs at a power station. They were seized by unidentified gunmen late Monday.

But American combat troops would leave Iraqi cities within the next six months. Mr. Gates was speaking at a US air base north of Baghdad.

At least four people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Many others were wounded in the blast.

The U. S. television network ABC says two Iraqi journalists from its Baghdad bureau have been ambushed and killed.

Devastating blasts rocked Baghdad in one of the worst explosions of violence since the US troop pulled back.

Hours before his arrival, at least 12 people were killed and doze of others wounded in two separate suicide car bombings in Baghdad.

Since the fall of Baghdad, the so-called blood Koran has stayed largely out of sight - locked away behind three vaulted doors.

Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of vehicles made the trip from Baghdad, the last of them passing into Kuwait in the early morning hours.

Attacks in Baghdad have become more deadly ever since the U. S. -led invasion last month of the city of Falljuah, west of Baghdad.

There's been a double suicide bomb attack on a provincial government compound in the town of Ramadi, about 100km west of Baghdad.

Earlier , at least seven civilians were killed during a security operation by US and Iraqi army forces near Falluja, west of Baghdad .

U. S. and Iraqi officials said the Mosul and Baghdad bombings bore the hallmarks of Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.

Baghdad's envoy said the Iraqi National Museum lost some 15000 items due to looting after Saddam's regime collapsed.

A US Army soldier inspected the site of a bombing at a parking lot belonging to a government office in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Calls for a third emblem have increased since the bombing of the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad in October.

All this has happened since August not in Kabul or Baghdad but in Monterrey in northern Mexico (see article).

Meanwhile, there was a bombing in a vegetable market in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, with dozens of casualties.

Markets have long been concerned that resource nationalism of the kind on display Tuesday in Baghdad is hampering new supply.

Iraqi officials say at least 58 people have been killed in a series of bombings -- most them targeting Shi'ites in the capital Baghdad.

Just take these past weeks. The insurgency has revived, culminating in a series of audacious and bloody attacks in the heart of Baghdad.

For instance, in February 2008 there was an assassination attempt on the deputy dean of Baghdad University's School of Medicine.

US and Iraqi troops arrest dozens of suspected insurgents in Baghdad while American forces all over the Iraq celebrate the Fourth of July.

At least two other major explosions targeted mostly Shiite areas of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A helicopter with a crew of two crashed north of Baghdad Monday, the military said. No casualties were immediately reported.

A senior Iraqi Christian is to call on believers to quit the country, after gunmen targeted a church in Baghdad.

A suicide car bombing Monday killed at least 19 people at the gates of a prison north of Baghdad.

There are expected to be two flights a week between Baghdad and Gatwick, which is just outside London in West Sussex.

So over the next two years, our lives in Baghdad became ever more restricted.

We relied in the Middle East on the Baghdad Pact, and yet when the Iraqi government was changed, the Baghdad Pact broke down.

President Bush orders thousands of extra US troops on to Baghdad's streets as part of a new Iraq strategy.

Iraqi authorities say a bomb blast at a police station south of Baghdad has killed a commander of a special police unit and his aide.

"We are, I believe, in terms of the American commitment, in the endgame here in Iraq, " he told US troops at an airbase near Baghdad.

The U. S. military Saturday announced that two American soldiers were killed and two others wounded by a suicide bomber in southern Baghdad.

"WE risked our lives for them, " says an Iraqi man in Baghdad who until recently was employed by an American government agency.

but there were no threats of military action against Baghdad by the United States and its allies at the time.

Mr Dorsey ventured out of his SoMa comfort zone recently to visit Baghdad and Mexico City with the USState Department.

Baghdad needs billions of dollars of investment to overhaul and expand its energy sector after years of sanctions and war.

There were other shocks. Petraeus had spent most of 2005 in Baghdad trying to train Iraqi Army units.

Baghdad security chief General Qassim Moussawi said the suicide bombings bore the hallmark of al-Qaida.

But the motorcycle did not fail him. He survived the fierce heat. He arrived safely in Baghdad.

Authorities say three women were among a group of pilgrims when they blew themselves up in Baghdad.

And Baghdad is not the only place where mobile-phone commerce thrives.

An Iraqi insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda says it has killed four Russian diplomats kidnapped three weeks ago in an ambush in Baghdad.

Insurgents easily set up roadblocks on highways and have pushed east through western Baghdad, nearly to the heart of the city.

A mutiny at a prison in Baghdad has led to the deaths of at least 10 inmates and 8 police officers, the BBC reported.

Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good.

The main targets were the ministry of justice and public works and the office of the governor of Baghdad province.

It's something I heard in Baghdad a couple of times and it stuck with me, that phrase, the hurt locker.

Nathan commands an infantry company that moved May 30 from an outpost in north Baghdad to Camp Victory, where his wife is stationed.

Another factor that has influenced British thinking is the difference between the security situation in Basra and that in Baghdad.

The United States has welcomed the stated commitments of key Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to set up embassies in Baghdad.

Sunnis tend to carry out ambushes like the one that damaged an American tank in this Baghdad district a fortnight ago.

Within the Baghdad city limits, I don't think we ever went more than a few hundred yards without seeing soldiers or policemen.

Iran's streets began to remind me of postwar Baghdad.

When he returned to Iraq in 2007, he got another tattoo of a snake wrapped around a sword at one of Baghdad's new tattoo parlors.

Much of his support comes from disaffected Sunnis in the north and west and from pragmatic, secular-minded Shias in Baghdad.

On the day of that most Iraqi's celebrated Baghdad Treasure's cousin was collecting her dead son from the morgue.

A US helicopter gunship involved in a notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after they tried to surrender.

Sirens of ambulances can be heard by Xinhua correspondents around Baghdad city center as the wounded are being rushed to local hospitals.

In Iraq, the return of widespread bombings in Baghdad and elsewhere by insurgents led to the unravelling of the governing Shia coalition.

American representatives in Baghdad have become impatient with the Kurds, considering them to have overreached themselves in recent years.

In the deadliest attack of the week, at least 27 people, most of them children, were killed in a car bomb in the south-east of Baghdad.

Iraqis suspected of links to al-Qaeda raided a Baghdad jewellery market, killed 15 people and made off with a stack of gold.

Change also says the two established parties have done a poor job at defending Kurdish interests in the federal parliament in Baghdad.

A bomb planted at a popular pet market in central Baghdad kills at least 13 people and injures scores more.

In CNPC's deal with Baghdad, locals would be given work doing security for the facility alongside local police.

Iraq's Interior Ministry says at least 27 people were killed in a series of bombings today near Shiite mosques in Baghdad.

Rice arrived in Baghdad with no advance notice, and went quickly into talks with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other officials.

The U. N. secretary-general marked the fifth anniversary of the bombing of U. N. headquarters in Baghdad Tuesday.

If, however, I found myself working in Iraq today, nothing would induce me to travel alone outside Baghdad's Green Zone.

South of Baghdad, too two Iraqi businessmen built a gasoline station in the town of Tunis . It's the only station for many kilometers.

Before the war, I met a schoolteacher in Baghdad who was making $2 a month and worked as a busboy in a restaurant to make ends meet.

With his days in office counting down, President Bush slipped out of Washington late Saturday and headed for Baghdad.

At a press conference in Baghdad a disgruntled Iraqi journalist threw his shoes (size ten) at the American president, an Arab insult.

for the air strikes, and also called on Baghdad to accept the U. N. weapons inspection unconditionally.

Thirty-six year old Peter Moore was released by his captors in Baghdad Wednesday morning.

The White House is condemning Tuesday's assassination of the governor of Baghdad province.

South of Baghdad, two Iraqi businessmen built a gasoline station in the town of Tunis . It's the only station for many kilometers.

That is what America's energetic ambassador in Baghdad has been trying to do behind the scenes for many months.

The British embassy in Baghdad does not issue visas, so they have to travel to Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey to apply.

BAD news from Baghdad inevitably seems to follow the good.

Iran was believed to have been considering offering access to inspectors prior to the Baghdad talks.

Iran was failing to stop the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad's Sunnis, he was told. It persecuted its own Sunni minority.

With that, $25 in cash and a new set of civilian clothes, the detainee, Alaq Khleirallah, 27, was back out onto the streets of Baghdad.

Insurgents in Iraq have attacked a government compound north of Baghdad, killing at least 16 policemen and freeing more than 30 prisoners.

The first day of Baghdad oil auction didn't quite live up to the upbeat expectations of the Iraqi government.

A spokesman for the British Embassy in Baghdad confirmed receipt of the video but declined to discuss its content.

Iraqi authorities are defending their handling of a hostage-taking attack Sunday at a Baghdad church.

Most roads were cut off for traffic as the Iraqi army and police cordoned off the numerous blast sites across Baghdad.

The Baghdad-based artist, Laith al-Amari, said his fibreglass-and-copper work was a homage to the pride of the Iraqi people.

That happened near the headquarters of the Baghdad provincial administration and Ministry of Justice.

A young boy looks through a bullet hole in the window of a school in the Shia area of Sadr city in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

"She is a vibrant individual, one-of-a-kind. She has a commitment that runs from Oklahoma to Baghdad, " he said.

In the last few years, their fate has been the subject of constant squabbles in Washington and between Washington and Baghdad.

I first visited the city in the early 1990s as a guest of the Red Crescent, who even then were running mercy missions to Baghdad.

Last August, the U. S. formally ended a combat mission in Iraq that began when coalition forces moved into Baghdad during the 2003 Gulf War.

The ambassador level talks between the United States and Iran on Iraq security will be held on Monday in Baghdad.

Baghdad's traffic, choked by hundreds of checkpoints, slows to a crawl while security forces inspect vehicles for weapons and explosives.

But Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed when jihadists blew up his UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003, was an exception.

I have a critical operation in Baghdad, my contacts packed and ready to go. I've gotta get a message to them.

But after so much killing, and the shattering of hopes, there may not be many fence-sitters left in Baghdad.

The result has been a reduced average daily availability of electrical power since 2003 in cities like Baghdad.

A week of deadly bombings continues in Baghdad.

Two bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 15 people and injuring many others.

Al Qaeda was strengthening its grip in critical parts of Iraq, including parts of the capital city of Baghdad.

Iraqi security officials say attacks in and around Baghdad have killed about thirty people. Many others were wounded.

Saudi Arabia has yet to open an embassy in Baghdad, which has been taken to mean that it deems Iraq's new Shia-led order to be illegitimate.

DOZENS of explosions woke up voters in Baghdad on March 7th, heralding the day of the general election.

U. S. Vice President Dick Cheney paid a visit to Baghdad just before the five-year anniversary of the U. S. -led invasion of Iraq.

As Kurdish-Arab relations in Baghdad worsen, the Americans may be starting to lean towards the more important of the two sides: the Arabs.

This small business owner works in Baghdad's Green Zone, a safer area controlled by the U. S. military.

The air-raid alarm could be easily heard across the city of Baghdad.

Many Arab states have already begun to open embassies in Baghdad.

A spate of bombings in Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq left at least 100 civilians dead and hundreds more wounded.

But Iraqi and U. S. officials say the Baghdad repository of 5000 years of Mesopotamian history will reopen by year's end.

Baghdad TV showed pools of blood and chunks of cinderblock from the explosion of a bomb in the Kurdish village of Sinjar, near Mosul.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 51 people in an attack at an army recruitment center in Baghdad.

A director of a city agency in Baghdad, on his plan to pay men to marry Iraqi war widows.

despite the big security search by american and iraqi troops in baghdad , the bombings go on virtually everyday.

Under the terms of a UN ceasefire agreement that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Baghdad was obligated to destroy all of its Scud missiles.

Several bomb blasts in Baghdad killed at least eight people.

American military helicopters hovered over some of the bomb sites, as clouds of black smoke billowed over Baghdad's skyline.

Fighting also erupted in the capital, Baghdad, between suspected Mahdi fighters and members of a rival Shiite faction.

A spectacular photograph of a UFO hovering over military activity in Baghdad has surfaced on the internet today.

Iraq and Syria have both recalled their ambassadors in a deepening rift over claims Damascus was harbouring militants who bombed Baghdad.

He made a stop in Baghdad today.

Twin car bombs exploded Sunday in a crowded area in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people and wounding 50.

They were taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad and listened to fellow inmates being tortured to death.

Three large explosions ripped through Baghdad Monday, killing at least 36 people and wounding more than 70 others.

With Saddam dead and a friendly Shia government in Baghdad, the mullahs in Tehran are showing a new self-confidence.

If American forces step back before Baghdad is secure, the Iraqi government would be overrun by extremists on all sides.

Ever since the fall of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Kadhimiya, just outside Baghdad, has been bustling with business.

I patrolled with members of the unit along some of Baghdad's most dangerous streets, translating for the soldiers.

S. A. , " a jubilant Iraqi-American told a camera crew in Kansas City for a segment about reaction to the fall of Baghdad. "

But he did not foresee that that day would lead to the fall of Baghdad 18 months later.

They think you are a spy. . . My life, all our lives, have become very dangerous in Baghdad.

Karbala, south of Baghdad in Iraq's Shiite heartland, is one of the world's holiest Shiite cities.

It has a different name, the Baghdad Central Prison, and is being run by the Iraqis.

But London isn't Baghdad, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, is hardly Saddam, so surely there is nothing to learn there.

The surge that helped secure Baghdad was carried out in a smallish, densely populated area.

Or maybe the prospect of a new president in Washington in 2009 will concentrate the minds of the squabbling politicians in Baghdad.

The food is a lot better than at the foreign correspondents' once-favoured haunt in Baghdad, the Hamra Hotel.

Though Baghdad is the most common setting, the newer tales began to reflect the low life world of Cairo.

The blast ripped through a crowd outside a bakery in the mainly Sunni Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad Tuesday.

In a separate incident today (Thursday), a roadside bomb blast in another part of Baghdad killed three Iraqi soldiers.

At least 14 people are dead and dozens hurt in a market bombing in Baghdad.

At least 100 Iraqis were killed in a spate of attacks in or near Baghdad.

S. service members. U. S. officials say four Marines died in two separate attacks on Tuesday in Anbar province, west of Baghdad.

All over Baghdad, I saw scores and scores of spanking-new shops and restaurants, many of them crowded with customers.

Iraqi police officials say at least 51 people were killed in a car bombing in a mainly Shiite section of Baghdad, another 75 were wounded.

They can no longer move freely around Baghdad. Some say they feel as if they are "under house arrest" .

This cooking technique is known as masgouf, a Baghdad specialty loved by Saddam Hussein.

They would clear insurgents out of parts of Baghdad.

Baghdad, Iraq, came last despite slight improvements in its infrastructure and moves to encourage investment.

A spate of bombings in Iraq killed at least 35 people, 27 of them in Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, the capital.

A car bomb in a Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad killed at least 40 people and injured scores of others.

When I was growing up in Baghdad, my father used to say, "Lamees, our family is the builder of this country. "

In Baghdad, water trucks were also used to transport water to hospitals and residents at outskirt.

U. S. troops in more than 100 U. S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.

Baghdad "s gleaming international airport terminal has been renovated by U. S. taxpayers at a cost of nearly $39 million dollars. "

The Iraqi government has announced that within the next 40 days all blast walls will be removed from Baghdad.

But these Sunni tribesmen are at best fair-weather friends who do not trust and are not trusted by the government in Baghdad.

Due to military unrest along the way, they never reached their destination, but instead spent many years in Mongol-controlled Baghdad.

Britain's six-year occupation of southern Iraq will end by the summer, Gordon Brown announced today on a surprise visit to Baghdad.

The attacks are the deadliest in Baghdad since the June 30 withdrawal of U. S. forces from Iraqi cities.

Shiites who fled sectarian violence near their villages have found safety and shelter in a garbage-strewn slum north of Baghdad.

These really are actual shipping containers, not the purpose-built housing units en vogue in Baghdad and Kabul.

An Iraqi official says pulling Blackwater out of Baghdad would create a security vacuum.

He planned to leave Baghdad on Monday.

But their sister never arrived. She was killed on the road from Baghdad to Damascus.

It was here that the complex work of decrypting the video of the Baghdad attack was done.

Diversify U. S. efforts to foster political accommodation outside Baghdad (more flexibility for local commanders and civilian leaders).

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a critic of the Iraq war, is leading a congressional delegation in Baghdad, holding talks with Iraqi leaders.

Iran's main shoemaking federation also offered to supply a lifetime of shoes to Zaidi, who remains in a Baghdad jail awaiting trial.

Bomb attacks in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, have killed at least 21 people.

Now, as U. S. troops withdraw and negotiations are underway in Baghdad to form a new government, Sadr may be planning his return.

An increasing number of cases of acute watery diarrhoea has also been reported in Diala, a province neighbouring Baghdad.

At his Baghdad barbershop Jalal Khalil (in pink) and customers followed news of the anti government uprising in Egypt.

Iraqi police say strings of bombings at in Baghdad has killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 50 others.

The report notes that its conclusions were drawn in part from interrogation of Mr. Hussein in his prison cell outside Baghdad. Mr.

The victims were killed at a 'combat stress clinic' at Camp Liberty, a sprawling American base near Baghdad's international airport.

"This commitment will end on the scheduled date, as agreed, " al-Maliki said Thursday at a meeting of Iraqi defense officials in Baghdad.

The slowness of the count contrasts with the frenetic pace of negotiations in Baghdad's hotel lobbies and party headquarters.

In a hospital in Baghdad supported by the ICRC, volunteers are helping patients to wash themselves.

The U. S. President promises a new plan to stabilise Iraq, yet Baghdad sees the worst violence in years.

Iraqi police say a car bomb explosion in Baghdad Friday killed at least nine people and wounded more than 30 others.

The CIA was helped by two German spies in Baghdad during the early days of the Iraq war.

The explosion, outside Baghdad's police academy, was the second major terrorist attack in Iraq in three days.

These days, though, the boulevard is again one of Baghdad's bloodiest battlegrounds.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 28 people near Iraq's police academy in Baghdad.

Another idea, already being tried out at Camp Victory, the main American base in Baghdad, is to convert rubbish into electricity.

Along with the U. S. surge, additional Iraqi forces are expected to deploy to Baghdad.

Meanwhile, suicide-bombs in Baghdad and Karbala, one of Shia Islam's holiest Iraqi towns, killed more than 60 Shia pilgrims.

And so all of a sudden, a poem appeared in the papers in Baghdad comparing me to many things, but among them an unparalleled serpent.

A suicide bomber killed 60 people and wounded 110 more, including many students, as they waited at the entrance to a university in Baghdad.

Its nickname(s)are the City by the Bay, Frisco , the City That Knows How (archaic), Baghdad by the Bay.

Yet as the news from Baghdad, Beirut, Karachi and Annapolis often reminds voters, the next president will have no time to learn on the job.

The U. S. military says Iraqi troops captured a "high-level" insurgent during a raid Wednesday in Baghdad. U.

U. S. troops tightened security around several key buildings in Baghdad Sunday, possibly in connection with Operation Desert Sidewinder.

Iraqi officials say bombings and other attacks have killed at least 23 people in mainly Shi'ite areas of the capital, Baghdad.

Kurdish businessman scoffs that the state-owned hotels in Baghdad "haven't been refurbished. . . since Saddam's time. "

young american soldiers are " kicking down doors [ in baghdad ] with a bull ' s eye on their back "

And with new security installed, talks are under way to return ancient Babylonian artifacts from the National Museum in Baghdad.

In this photo, a Eurasian griffon that sells for $650 poses for a portrait in a pet shop in Baghdad, Iraq.

It's early morning in central Baghdad's Bataween district. Out-of-work laborers huddle on the street hoping to pick up a day's wages.

Oil began to flow six months after CNPC began work on the Ahdad field, located 90 miles south of Baghdad in Wasit province.