Baghdad (AFP) – Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a skateboard and then struggled to find her balance as others glided back and forth at Baghdad's first park dedicated to the sport ...

The Baghdad skatepark provides a welcome means of escape for young Iraqis in a country that has endured decades of conflict and crisis — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Rukaya al-Zubaidi placed a cautious foot on a ...

Night - Clear. Winds from WNW to NW at 9 mph (14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 47 °F (8.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds from NW to WNW at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Shiite pilgrims pray at the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhimduring during their annual ...

If you’re not well-versed in South American geography, you could easily look at a map of the Empire of ... a much-reduced kingdom in Spain. The Abbasid Caliphate succeeded the Umayyads after ...

The Abbasid Caliphate succeeded the Umayyads after defeating them at the Battle of the Zab, and they stamped their authority on the Islamic world by moving the capital to their power base in Baghdad ...

This week’s Kickstarter Roundup takes us to a French Patisserie, a Mystical-Industrial world, and asks us to look deep within ourselves. Come check out this week’s batch of crowdfunding and ...

It has come to be remembered as Islam’s ‘golden age’. This is the story of the Abbasid Caliphate. #EpicHistoryTV #IslamicHistory #AbbasidCaliphate Finneas issues warning to fans after he and ...

Without the Abbasid Caliphs of Baghdad, would we have had Aquinas, the Renaissance scholars and everything that happened since then? But what happened to the great flowering of that Arab golden age?

It comes a day after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) announced the creation of a "caliphate ... troops to protect the US embassy in Baghdad. This means about 750 US troops ...