Al-Mansour Hotel

Al-Mansour Hotel (Arabic: فندق المنصور) is situated on the bank of the Tigris river in the center of Baghdad.

Iraqis would choose this hotel to hold weddings and festivals that included poetry, Arab plastic art, theater, and solidarity conferences.

During the Gulf War, the hotel suffered severe missile bombings after US forces made sure no journalist was in the building.

[2] On Monday of June 25, 2007, a suicide bomber ran into the lobby of the hotel and ignited a bomb he was wearing and killed 12 civilians, including six sheikhs, four of whom were Sunni Muslims and two were Shi'a Muslims, who were discussing how to reconcile sectarianist conflicts in the country and how to fight al-Qaeda in Iraq while drinking tea.

At the time, the hotel housed the Chinese Embassy, several Western organizations and some members of the Iraqi Parliament.