This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital ... for Iraq as a whole and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north. In federal Iraq, some 70.2% of the population lives in urban areas ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

"To be honest, the Alawites clearly ask for international protection," a former Syrian diplomat told Newsweek.

Syria witnessed the most intense and bloodiest clashes between the new Syrian government and Bashar al Assad loyalists since ...

President Erdoğan issued a warning to the PKK to adhere to its promise as the terrorist group announced it would stop attacks ...

Part Biblical myth part Zionist delusion, the idea of a belligerent Greater Israel is the Zionist strategy, and also its last ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s oil ministry announced Saturday the resumption of oil exports from northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The exports had been halted for nearly two years after the ...