In the late 10th century, a nomadic chief named Seljuk broke away from his Khazar overlords in the north of the Caspian Sea.

In 1071, a small nomadic dynasty—named the Seljuks after their founder—fought a battle against Byzantine forces under the ...

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The caliph Al-Ma’mun of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad put Hunayn ibn Ishaq in charge of the translators at the city’s famous Bayt al-Hikma, or House of Wisdom. By the 900s, drawing from a ...

That 4,000-year-old lament sounded all too contemporary in April as Baghdad mobs stormed Iraq ... THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE’S SOUL 2500 B.C. - 614 B.C. The siege of ashur in 614 B.C. was long ...

If there ever should be a united Arabia the imperial centre would swing over from Damascus to Baghdad as inevitably as it did more than a thousand years ago, when the Abbasid Caliphate ... is the most ...

It became the stronghold of the Al Saud dynasty and the center of the Wahhabi ... In the 9th century, the Abbasid Caliphate moved its capital from Baghdad to Samarra, hoping to establish a city free ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani said on Wednesday that a delegation from the Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry is set to visit Baghdad on Saturday to ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Meta Platforms (META) is preparing for the start of a courtroom antitrust battle Monday with the US government in a case that could force Mark Zuckerberg to break up his $1.3 trillion empire and ...