A worker walks past the Bismayah residential project in Baghdad, February 26, 2015. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - On a main highway south of Baghdad, dozens of buildings rise up from the Iraqi plains, the first blocks of a multi-billion-dollar city emerging from a landscape more accustomed to conflict and crisis than glitzy new development.
Bismayah New City, which aims to house half a million people within four years, dwarfs any construction project Iraq has attempted in a generation.
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