The U.S. launched campaigns in the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah and a surge campaign in Baghdad.
He prepared operations south of Samarra and north of Baghdad.
All the roads into Iraqi Kurdistan and toward Baghdad are closed and now the road toward Syria is also blocked.
His bloodthirsty fighters might be Baghdad's best hope of stopping the Islamic State.
It is not even certain that they can or will defend Baghdad or the oil facilities to the south.
What was fun to them in Baghdad is fun to us in London after a thousand years.
The Patron was a very real factor in the poetical life of Baghdad.
Shelton thought to himself: "Why don't I know a place that's better than Baghdad?"
But in reference to Baghdad we all of us, I think, felt undecided and in a quandary.
That ought to have determined our attitude on the minor Baghdad point.
a pre-Islamic name apparently of Indo-European origin and probably meaning "gift of god," with the first element related to Russian bog "god" and the second to English donor. Marco Polo (13c.) wrote it Baudac.
country name, 1920, from an Arabic name attested since 6c. for the region known in Greek as Mesopotamia; often said to be from Arabic `araqa, covering notions such as "perspiring, deeply rooted, well-watered," which may reflect the impression the lush river-land made on desert Arabs. But the name may be from, or influenced by, Sumerian Uruk (Biblical Erech), anciently a prominent city in what is now southern Iraq (from Sumerian uru "city").
Capital of Iraq, located in central Iraq on both banks of the Tigris River.
Note: Baghdad has long been one of the great cities of the Muslim world.
Note: It was bombed heavily during the Persian Gulf War.
Republic in the Middle East, bordered by the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to the south; Jordan and Syria to the west; Turkey to the north; and Iran to the east. Its capital and largest city is Baghdad.
Note: The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia emerged in the valley between the Euphrates River and Tigris River in what is now Iraq.
Note: Ruled by Saddam Hussein, a dictator who invaded Iran in 1980 and Kuwait in 1990. (See also Persian Gulf War.)
