An iconic café in the heart of Baghdad has witnessed decades of change to Iraq’s history. Through it all, the place has ...

Erin Rice is a Contributor from the United States. She has a Master of Arts in Composition and Rhetoric and works as a professor and Academic Advisor. She has been writing about video games for a ...

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of the ...

Baghdad is a city that looms large in the American imagination. In 2003, at the start of the last Iraq war, it was occupied by U.S. troops. In the years that followed, thousands of U.S. citizens ...

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Think of Baghdad and for most people what comes to mind is a city of damaged buildings and concrete checkpoints. This is what Caecilia Pieri expected the first time she visited the Iraqi capital just ...

In the first of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s extraordinary series of films to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, he investigates the claims that the US military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By ...

Baghdad’s air quality plunged to the hazardous purple level as toxic smoke from illegal factories and waste burning spread ...

Baghdad faces "catastrophic" pollution with AQI hitting 380, caused by waste burning at Rashid Camp, sparking health warnings and government action.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003.

Just when you think the Noir Series from Akashic Books has gone everywhere — Lagos, Montana, and earlier this year, Prague — editors Tim McLoughlin and Johnny Temple (the publisher of Akashic) find a ...