The finished work consists of 302 double sided scrolls, each measuring 4 meters (13 feet) in length and 1.5 meters in width.

As a plenary panelist at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit, I will say this clearly: People fleeing ...

Iraq is at a crossroads as its largest Shia bloc risks fallout by backing Nouri al-Maliki for the prime minister post, ...

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed defiance after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Iraq must do more to protect women after a harassment incident in Basra sparked nationwide outrage and highlighted gender-based violence, activists have told The National.

The U.S. move came as Syrian government forces have captured wide areas that had been controlled by the SDF for years in an ...

The Middle East has been compared to a large bazaar. The more you get into it, the more confusing and complex it becomes.

Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

President Trump on Monday dismissed comparisons between past U.S. involvement in Iraq and the recent military operation in Venezuela, saying the difference is that the Trump administration plans to ...

Iraq has become a strategic battleground between Western powers and China–Russia. China has deeply entrenched itself in Iraq’s energy and infrastructure, controlling about a third of proven reserves ...

Archaeologists from Germany have returned from northern Iraq without museum-ready artifacts but with rare insight into how faiths once shared the same ground. The work was led by Dr. Alexander Tamm of ...