Photos of abused prisoners and smiling US soldiers guarding them at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released on April 28, 2004, ...

A combination of oil, western intervention, the Cold War and military rule has transformed Iraq from a relatively minor player in the Arab world to a country of prime importance in world affairs.

Trying to get details from him was difficult -- he spoke at length, often launching into a flowery history of Iraq or a description of Hussein's crimes, and in Arabic, which meant we had to wait ...

Did you know that Iraq holds the distinction of having the most artifacts in the British Museum outside of the UK? These ...

The 1958 coup d’état was not the first upheaval in Iraq’s modern political history, which has been marked by nationalist fervor, ethnic uprisings, tribal conflicts, palace treacheries ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and ...

Francesco Lastrucci Kurds, an ethnic minority established in the region for thousands of years, have large populations in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. They share history and language but have ...

Politico has produced an article on the Republicans’ foreign policy disadvantage that never once mentions the Iraq war. This is as close as the article gets: Still, Republicans aren’t ...