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Baghdad International Airport
Baghdad International Airport, originally Saddam International Airport, (IATA: BGW, ICAO: ORBI) (Arabic: مطار بغداد الدولي), is Iraq's largest airport, located in a suburb about 16 km (9.9 mi) west of downtown Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate. It...
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Abu Hanifa Mosque
The Abu Hanifa Mosque (Arabic: مسجد أبو حنيفة, masjid abū ḥanīfah or مسجد أبي حنيفة, masjid abī ḥanīfah) is one of the most prominent Sunni mosques in Baghdād, Iraq.
Abu Hanifa Mosque is built around the tomb of Abū Ḥanīfah an-Nuʿmān (often called ...
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Al Shaab Stadium
Al Shaab Stadium (Arabic: ملعب الشعب) also known as The People's Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Baghdad, Iraq. It is used mostly for football (soccer) matches and is the home of the Iraq national football team. The stadium has seating for...
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Hands of Victory
The Arc of Triumph (Arabic: قوس النصر qaūs al-naṣr), also called the Swords of Qādisīyah، and Hands of Victory in some Western sources, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of hands holding crossed...
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Rasheed
Rasheed or Al Rashid is one of nine administrative districts in Baghdad, Iraq. Located in southern Baghdad, includes the Baiyaa and Dora neighborhoods.
It is a predominantly Sunni Muslim area.
The 18-story Hotel Al-Rasheed is one of the most...
Dora, Baghdad
Dora (also al-Dura, or ad-Durah, Arabic,الدورة) is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Although this was a majority Assyrian Christian neighborhood, it became controlled by Sunni Muslim Extremists during the...
Al-A'amiriya
Al-A'amiriya ( Arabic العامريه ) is a western neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. It is an upper-class Sunni neighborhood in the west of the city on the way to Anbar Province.
In March 2007, American troops cleared the neighborhood during one of the...
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Presidential Palace, Baghdad
The Presidential palace was previously the home of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Now it has been taken over by US coalition forces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It used to be stunning inside with Italian marble, luxury furniture and monuments...
Al-Aaimmah bridge
The Al-Aaimmah bridge' (Arabic: 'جسر الأئمة, Jisr al-A'immah) is a bridge over the river Tigris in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The bridge links the areas of Adhamiya, which is a majority Sunni Arab area, from its East bank with the Shia area of...
National Museum of Iraq
The National Museum of Iraq (Arabic: المتحف العراقي) is a museum located in Baghdad, Iraq. Also known as the Iraq Museum, it contains precious relics from the Mesopotamian civilization.
After World War I, archaeologists from Europe and the United...
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Baghdad Hotel
The Hotel is situated in the central prestigious part of Baghdad in the Fashionable area of Masbah – Karada, and is of four star superior quality and have been recently refurbished to a very good standard. Opposite to previous German Embassy and 3...
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Fao, Iraq
Al-Faw (Arabic: الفاو; sometimes transliterated as Fao) is a small port on the Al Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. The Al Faw Peninsula itself is part of the Basrah Governorate.
The town lies at the south-east end...
Camp Nama
Camp Nama was a military base in Baghdad, Iraq, originally built by the government of Saddam Hussein, from which its name derives, and now used by U.S. military forces. Purportedly, the original Iraqi name has been repurposed by U.S. personnel...
Palestine Hotel
The Palestine Hotel (Arabic: فندق فلسطين), often referred to simply as The Palestine, is an 18-story hotel in Baghdad, Iraq located on Firdos Square, across from the Sheraton Ishtar. It has long been favored by journalists and media personnel. The...
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Al Zawra Stadium
Al Zawraa Stadium (Arabic: ملعب الزوراء) is a multi-use stadium in Baghdad, Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Al Zawra. The stadium holds 20,000 people and was built in 1978.
Al-Fanar Hotel
The Al-Fanar Hotel (Arabic,فندق الفنار) is a hotel in Baghdad, Iraq. It is popular with independent travelers to the city. It is also the place where the Iraqi Heavy Metal band Acrassicauda played their last concert inside Iraq.
It is across the...
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Al-Adudi Hospital
The Al-'Adudi Hospital (Arabic: البيمارستان العضدي) was a bimaristan in Baghdad named after Emir 'Adud al-Daula. The hospital was built in AD 981, but destroyed in 1258 by the Mongol invasion.
Baghdad Wall
The Baghdad Wall is the name being given by some media outlets to a 5 km long (3 mile) separation barrier being built by the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army around the predominantly Sunni district of...
The Monument to the Unknown Soldier
The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (Arabic,صرح الجندي المجهول) is said to be inspired by the glorification of a martyr from the Iran–Iraq War. The Monument represents a traditional shield (dira¹a) dropping from the dying grasp of an Iraqi warrior....
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Mansour Hotel
The Al Mansour Hotel (Arabic,فندق المنصور) is situated in the coastside of the Tigris river in the middle of Baghdad city. In 2007, the hotel experienced bombings resulting in 12 deaths.
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Al-Sarafiya bridge
The al-Sarafiya bridge (Arabic,جسر الصرافية) crosses the River Tigris in Baghdad. It was built in the 1940s or 1950s under the British Mandate of Mesopotamia and connected the two northern Baghdad neighborhoods of Waziriyah and Utafiyah.
Having been...
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Tahrir Square Development
The Tahrir Square Development in Baghdad, Iraq, is the proposed first phase in architect Hisham N. Ashkouri's Baghdad Renaissance Plan. Based around an established traffic circle on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad's Central Business...
Firdos Square
Firdaus Square, or Firdos Square (Arabic: ساحة الفردوس; transliterated: Sahat al-Firdaus), is a public open space in Baghdad, Iraq. It is named after the Arabic word Firdows, which literally means "paradise". It is the location of two of the best...
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Assassin's Gate
The Assassin's Gate is one of four primary points of entry to the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. The name originates from the unit (Alpha Company, 2-6 Infantry, 2 Brigade, 1 Armored Division - Alpha Assassins) initially providing security at the gate...
Saddam Hussein Gymnasium
Saddam Hussein Gymnasium is a sports complex in Baghdad, Iraq adjacent to the Al-Shaab Stadium. Designed by Le Corbusier under the commission of King Faisal II in 1956 for potential use in the 1960 Summer Olympics. After Faisal II was overthrown in...
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Khan Murjan
The Khan Murjan (Arabic: خان مرجان) originally designed as an inn for travelling merchants in Baghdad, and the dwelling place of many university scholars, this was built in the 14th century, and has a central hall more than 45 feet (14 m) high. The...
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Baghdad Eye
The Baghdad Eye is a 198-metre (650 ft) tall giant Ferris wheel proposed for Al-Zawraa Park in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2008.
Tenders were invited for designs featuring air-conditioned compartments that would each carry at least 30 passengers.
Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center
The Sindbad Hotel Complex and Conference Center was designed by architect Hisham N. Ashkouri in 2004 to be the first new high-rise hotel, conference center and movie theater complex in modern Baghdad, as a symbol of the reconstruction of Iraq. This...
Al-Shaheed Monument
The al-Shaheed Monument (Arabic: نُصب الشهيد), also known as the Martyr's Memorial, is a monument in the Iraqi capital Baghdad dedicated to the Iraqi soldiers who died in the Iran-Iraq war. The Monument was opened in 1983, and was designed by...
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Muthenna Airbase
Muthanna Airbase was an Iraqi military facility west of the center of Baghdad. It consisted of one 3,000 m asphalt/concrete runway sited in a developed industrial/residential area. It was the home base for Iraqi Air Force transport squadrons and...
Sheraton Ishtar
The Ishtar Sheraton Hotel (Arabic,فندق شيراتون عشتار)is a hotel in Baghdad, Iraq located on Firdos Square. It is the tallest building in Baghdad, and the tallest structure in Iraq after the Baghdad Tower.
Despite its name, the hotel has had nothing...
Embassy of the United States in Baghdad
The Embassy of the United States in Baghdad is the diplomatic mission of the United States in Iraq. It is located in Baghdad and is home to the Ambassador to Iraq. Ambassador James F. Jeffrey is currently the Chief of Mission.
The Embassy of the...
Al-Hikma University
Al-Hikma University in Baghdad was founded in 1956 by Jesuit priests from the New England Province of the Society of Jesus. It was located at Zaafarania, on the southern outskirts of Baghdad and was an extension of the work of the Jesuits who had a...
Al-Rashid Hotel
Hotel Al-Rasheed (sometimes spelled Al-Rashid) (Arabic,فندق الرشيد) is an 18-story hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, favored by journalists and media personnel due to its location within Baghdad's Green Zone. It is named after the eighth century Caliph Harun...
