Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city ...

A river flowing through Iraq’s northern Kurdistan has all but dried up, prompting warnings of an “environmental catastrophe” ...

The northern city was under the harsh rule of the Islamic State group until the jihadists were ousted from their last major ...

Military officials said those killed in a dramatic mission by U.S. and Iraqi forces last month included the extremist group’s ...

Powerful Iran-backed Shia militia groups in Iraq have vowed to avenge Friday’s deadly Israeli ... back to the north of the ...

Dr St John Simpson, a senior Middle East curator and archaeologist at the British Museum, said: "It's the largest antiquity believed to have been repatriated to Iraq in the past 20 years, and very ...

After being forced to flee because of fierce fighting, an Iraqi religious order has finally returned to the place where it was founded - with help from a leading Catholic charity. The Daughters of the ...

The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of ...

Get real-time updates on Kuwait vs Iraq live coverage minute by minute of the match, score and result online, stream ...

Hezbollah is a Shiite group, heavily militarized, infinitely more sophisticated than Hamas, infinitely better armed, and it obviously doesn’t have the sense of isolation. And in fact, in a relatively ...

The name “Iraq” has ancient origins, probably from the Sumerian city of Uruk, birthplace of writing and seat of Gilgamesh. The Greeks called it Mesopotamia, the land “between the rivers ...