Iraq has officially reopened the Qaim border crossing with Syria for trade and passenger traffic, a spokesman for the Iraqi ...

The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of ...

The U.S. State Department issued security alerts on Friday for several Middle Eastern countries, in some cases advising ...

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Global airlines on Friday cancelled flights to Tel Aviv, Tehran and other Middle East destinations, or rerouted planes, as ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has reopened its al-Qaim border crossing with Syria, more than half a year after it was closed ...

The price of oil initially increased more than 4% when news of the US evacuation broke, in anticipation of regional ...

The Iraqi government temporarily closed Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Friday, citing rising regional tensions after ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States on Thursday updated its travel advisory for Iraq and called on citizens to avoid ...

In the mountains of eastern Iraq, a hunter stumbled upon a black-tongued predator. Instead of killing the dangerous animal, the hunter captured it to show to scientists — and for good reason. It ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...