Fires burn in and around Saddam Hussein's Council of Ministers during the first wave of attacks in the 'shock and awe' phase ...

United States forces have been battling through the streets of central Baghdad, widening their control over the city. US troops are pounding the remaining pockets of Iraqi defenders, who have offered ...

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent ...

In the chaotic, hopeful April of 2003, Baghdad's Karrada district was one of those neighborhoods where residents showered flowers on U.S. forces entering the capital. Revelers threw water on one ...

A boy hunting in Baghdad during a sandstorm in 2003.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Moises Saman Mr. Saman is a photojournalist. Twenty years ago this week, I witnessed the opening ...

All Things Considered guest host John Ydstie talks to NPR's Anne Garrels about the situation inside Baghdad, where electricity and phone service are cut off. Garrels reports that her movements are ...

KUWAIT CITY, March 27 -- With sandstorms subsiding and visibility improving, U.S. and British warplanes attacked Baghdad and Republican Guard defenses outside the capital with renewed fury today as ...

Father Habib Hermiz of the Saint George Chaldean Church in Baghdad says Christians are becoming targets of extortion as the country’s security situation continues to unravel. In July, a band of ...

A suicide car bombing at an Iraqi police station in Baghdad leaves the bomber and eight Iraqis dead and dozens wounded. In a separate incident, a Spanish embassy employee is killed in Baghdad.

There are two Baghdads and both are important although one is insubstantial. The Baghdad in the bombsights (concrete highways, parking lots, sprawling suburbs, smog) is a drab big city, hotter than ...

Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003: Marines of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines cut the Iraqi flag from a pole in front of a Special Republican Guard headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. The crossing into ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines ...