ISIL, also known as ISIS, no longer holds towns and cities, but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the Iraq-Syria border. Iraq’s military has launched another offensive to ...

From the Islamic Caliphates to today's Islamic State of Iraq ... a map is what we know today and take for granted across the globe. The region is impacted by several divides that go beyond borders.

The Iraqi military has denied reports about demarcating borders between the central government in Baghdad and northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. Local media said Monday Baghdad and the Kurdish ...