Developed by Egypt’s Ora 25km from Baghdad Will house 700,000 people The design for a new city in Iraq to be built by an ...

Baghdad at the time was the largest city in the world, with a population of about 1 million. It was a perfectly round city, with all the important buildings in the centre. Situated between two ...

The centre was a perfect circle. The round city. By 814, Baghdad was the world's largest city with over one million inhabitants. Its position on the banks of the River Tigris and near the river ...

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a nearby power plant that fills his Baghdad neighbourhood with noxious smoke.