The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers ...

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 ...

Iraq is billions of dollars in arrears on its payments for the ... who urged the allocation of water from border rivers through agreements "satisfactory to everyone".

2) Advancing water security Iraq suffers from a critical water crisis due to reduced rainfall and over-utilization of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These challenges are exacerbated by inefficient ...