Oil analysts who worked in Iraq say Iraqi oil sales had more protections after the U.S. invasion than Venezuelan oil sales ...

Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection ...

Archaeologists working in northern Iraq have uncovered a 1,500‑year‑old religious complex that is forcing scholars to rethink when and how different faiths managed to live side by side. At a site ...

Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the ...

WASHINGTON – His now-infamous claim that “we will be greeted as liberators" will forever tie former Vice President Dick Cheney to the Iraq War launched soon after his fateful March 2003 remarks. But ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. Share full ...