The Latest Breaking News from Baghdad

Baghdad native and former architect Ghaith Abdul-Ahad traces his start as a journalist to the day Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in central Baghdad, on April 9 2003 – two weeks after US troops invaded the city.

A feud between two prominent Christian leaders has divided believers of the faith in Iraq

Hundreds of protesters have attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses foreign embassies and the seat of Iraq’s government following reports of the burning of a Quran carried out by a ultranationalist group in front of the Iraqi Embassy in Copenhagen

Muslim-majority nations are expressing outrage over the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden

Muslim nations have expressed outrage since Salwan Momika desecrated the holy book in Stockholm last month.

Iraq expelled Sweden's ambassador and recalled its diplomat from Sweden, hours after protesters attacked the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, setting fire to part of the building.

Diplomatic blow-up comes hours after protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Koran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad

Baghdad also recalls chargé d’affaires from Sweden as protesters storm Swedish embassy in Iraq

Protesters angered by burning of copies of the Quran in Sweden set fire to the Swedish embassy in the Iraqi capital.