Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

This story appears in the July 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. I haven't returned to Baghdad to be a war tourist, attuning my eyes to the many long shadows cast by trauma, but it's ...

Where the country of Iraq will be one day. You made it! I’m Ali. I live here in Baghdad – a city of over a million people and the most advanced city in the world. We made the city completely ...

I’ll admit that Baghdad was not the first place I had considered ... news reports I've seen over many years. It has an enduring love affair with cafes. It’s believed that the first – Khan ...

The Abbasid Caliphate once ruled a Golden Age of knowledge and power, but it all came crashing down when Baghdad burned Discover the fall of this great dynasty ...