EditorialAs U.S.-led coalition forces approach the city from the south, an oil fire burns in central Baghdad, Iraq on April 3, 2003. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople wait outside an authorized currency dealer in Baghdad to exchange Iraqi dinars for U.S. dollars, Feb. 22, 2023. (Joao Silva/The New York Times)
EditorialRelatives await news of loved ones being seen at the Alkindi Hospital in Baghdad, which services poor and vulnerable neighborhoods, Sept. 6, 2022. (Emily Garthwaite/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Central Bank of Iraq tower, designed by the renowned Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, under construction on the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad, Sept. 6, 2022. (Emily Garthwaite/The New York Times)
EditorialVendors in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Jan. 20, 2022, where many of the capital city’s Black families live in poverty. (Aline Deschamps/The New York Times)
EditorialA member of the paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq in front of a banner at the organization's headquarters in Baghdad, Oct. 1, 2021. (Andrea DiCenzo/The New York Times)
EditorialA person searches the rubble of the burned Imam Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriya, Iraq, Wednesday July 14, 2021. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)
EditorialPeople welcome Pope Francis to the Church of Immaculate Conception in Qaraqosh, Iraq, on Sunday, March 7, 2021. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialFILE -- Nisour Square on Dec. 31, 2009, in Baghdad, Iraq, the scene of the shooting carried out by Blackwater contractors in which 17 Iraqis were killed. (Eros Hoagland/The New York Times)