• Thumbnail for Republican Palace, Baghdad
    40861°E / 33.30417; 44.40861 The Republican Palace (Arabic: القصر الجمهوري, al-Qaṣr al-Jumhūriy) is a palace in Baghdad, Iraq, constructed on the orders...
    10 KB (1,424 words) - 14:27, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for As-Salam Palace
    as-Salam Palace (Arabic: قصر السلام), previously a home of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Since 2012, the palace has been certified as a Republican Palace...
    4 KB (424 words) - 03:57, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prime Minister of Iraq
    minister's office is located in the Al Zaqura Building in the Green Zone, Baghdad. List of kings of Iraq List of presidents of Iraq "Iraqi lawmakers pass...
    7 KB (551 words) - 14:08, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Baghdad (2003)
    The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion...
    42 KB (4,355 words) - 22:14, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Green Zone
    rockets raise Baghdad tensions". USA Today. Retrieved May 4, 2010. Londoño, Ernesto (January 1, 2009). "At Midnight, U.S. Leaves Republican Palace, Green Zone...
    13 KB (1,528 words) - 15:48, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special Republican Guard (Iraq)
    al-Khas), also known as the Special Forces Brigade of the Presidential Palace, Republican Guard Special Protection Forces, or the Golden Division, was an elite...
    8 KB (498 words) - 15:53, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baghdad
    of Palaces", as it is home to well known palaces. The name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed...
    149 KB (14,587 words) - 02:00, 2 January 2025
  • 5th Corps plus parts of the Republican Guard. Significant battles included the Battle of Nasiriyah and the Battle of Baghdad. The British Army controlled...
    71 KB (8,492 words) - 22:09, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for President of Iraq
    palace complex. In addition, there are a scattered number of presidential palaces in Baghdad and the rest of the provinces, such as the Sujood Palace...
    8 KB (889 words) - 09:36, 18 December 2024
  • stormed the Republican Palace in the Green Zone, reportedly accessing the pool. At 15:30 local time on 29 August, a curfew was declared in Baghdad. The same...
    11 KB (844 words) - 17:07, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
    Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (category Politicians from Baghdad)
    closely followed the 2022 Iraqi political crisis. Al-Kadhimi was born in Baghdad in 1964 to Abdul Latif, who was born in Al-Shatra, a town in southern Iraq...
    18 KB (1,601 words) - 04:03, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Embassy of the United States, Baghdad
    replaced the previous embassy, which opened July 1, 2004 in Baghdad's Green Zone in a former Palace of Saddam Hussein. The embassy complex cost US$750 million...
    18 KB (1,925 words) - 05:35, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Khalil
    leader Paul Bremer and other CPA officials. Khalil lived in the Republican Palace, Baghdad, with his role including "providing advice on counter-terrorism...
    37 KB (2,980 words) - 04:44, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Faisal II
    Faisal II (category People from Baghdad)
    revolutionary assault group at the Rihab Palace, which was still the principal royal residence in central Baghdad, ordered the King, Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah...
    30 KB (3,324 words) - 18:34, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Damage to Baghdad during the Iraq War
    the location of the UN in Baghdad. According to GlobalSecurity.org, the Republican Palace (Iraq) and the Al Sijoud Palace were both reported damaged...
    19 KB (1,889 words) - 04:49, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident
    George W. Bush shoe-throwing incident (category 2008 in Baghdad)
    During a 14 December 2008 press conference at the prime minister's palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes...
    89 KB (8,482 words) - 02:13, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tikrit
    Tikrit (redirect from The Birthday Palace)
    [ˈtɪkriːt]) is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers (87 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers (140 mi) southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It...
    28 KB (2,701 words) - 07:18, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Abd al-Ilah
    monarchy in Iraq. His body was mutilated, dragged across the streets of Baghdad, and eventually burnt. Son and heir of King Ali ibn Hussein of Hejaz, who...
    15 KB (1,336 words) - 12:41, 25 October 2024
  • November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état (category 1960s in Baghdad)
    fighter jets strafed the Presidential Palace in Baghdad; large crowds of al-Sadi supporters demonstrated in Baghdad. By the afternoon, Prime Minister al-Bakr's...
    7 KB (744 words) - 10:53, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saddam Hussein
    family. He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1957, and later in 1966 the Iraqi and Baghdad-based Ba'ath parties. He played a key role in the 17 July Revolution and...
    229 KB (24,946 words) - 11:59, 3 January 2025
  • military's Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard units outside Baghdad to Saddam's presidential palaces, it caused a shock to troops inside Baghdad. Iraqi...
    22 KB (2,538 words) - 20:13, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karkh
    Karkh (category Neighborhoods in Baghdad)
    name of the western half of Baghdad, Iraq, or alternatively, the western shore of the Tigris River as it ran through Baghdad. The eastern shore is known...
    41 KB (5,285 words) - 20:02, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Saddam
    within forty-eight hours. As the bombing of Baghdad commences, Saddam and his family flee the Republican Palace. 1979: Shortly after the Iranian Revolution...
    24 KB (2,447 words) - 01:21, 11 December 2024
  • 2012 Arab League summit (category 2012 in Baghdad)
    The 23rd Arab League Summit was the third one held in Baghdad and the first one since 1990, before the start of the Gulf War. The decision to grant the...
    13 KB (1,042 words) - 05:26, 9 November 2024
  • Victory Arch (category Buildings and structures in Baghdad)
    Victory or the Crossed Swords, are a pair of triumphal arches in central Baghdad, Iraq. Each arch consists of a pair of outstretched hands holding crossed...
    15 KB (1,754 words) - 09:27, 11 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2003 invasion of Iraq order of battle
    al-Din Taha al-Rawi. I Corps of the Republican Guards Al Medina Armored Division; 2nd, 10th and 14th Brigades. Baghdad Mechanized Division; including the...
    25 KB (1,922 words) - 01:07, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iraq Museum
    Iraq Museum (redirect from Baghdad Museum)
    Museum (Arabic: المتحف العراقي) is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq. The Iraq...
    45 KB (4,879 words) - 00:12, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fedayeen Saddam
    April, Baghdad fell to U.S. forces with only sporadic resistance by Fedayeen irregulars, foreign volunteers, and remnants of the Special Republican Guard...
    26 KB (2,268 words) - 13:55, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mohan al-Furayji
    Iraq. In April 2008, he was assigned back to Baghdad. Mohan was a senior officer in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard however, in the mid-1990s, he was imprisoned...
    5 KB (491 words) - 11:40, 30 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Morgan Ortagus
    Morgan Ortagus (category Florida Republicans)
    spending several months in Baghdad, Iraq. She attended a Hanukkah ceremony in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Baghdad. In 2008, Ortagus joined...
    29 KB (2,848 words) - 07:14, 1 December 2024