A Sumerian palace that was discovered in the Iraq desert could contain the key to understanding one of the first human civilisations, archaeologists have revealed. Since 2015, a team of British ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A second mass grave in under a month containing the remains of 155 Kurds massacred by the former ...

Within Iraq’s vast desert, archaeologists have discovered something extraordinary — a battlefield that has been lost for nearly 1,400 years. And they did so using unconventional tools for ...

It was sparked by Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. The war unfolded in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which focused on troop deployment and defending Saudi Arabia, and Operation ...

A bus trip to Baghdad in the late 1950s began Dr. Marr’s path to become one of the leading American experts on Iraq.

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Besides Baghdad, the western desert province of Anbar and the south-western province of Najaf were also badly affected. Dust storms mostly hit Iraq in the summer months, when they are often ...