When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The map was originally discovered in 1882 by renowned archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq. Although Rassam discovered the tablet nearly 150 years ...

The agreement keeps alive the possibility that a small contingent of U.S. forces might stay in Iraq indefinitely.

Iraq's military says its forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

Antony Blinken is the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Niger, an African nation that few Americans could find on a map. The United ... and disastrous war on Iraq. “The British government ...

(AP) The bulk of U.S. forces will depart Iraq over the next two years, leaving only a residual force in the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan to provide security to Iraqi Kurds and sustain U.S ...

More than 21 million Shiite Muslims took part in the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq this year, which reached its peak Sunday with attendees displaying their support for Gaza. Arbaeen, which means ...

Iraq has one of the youngest populations in the world, with about 60 percent under the age of 25. Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the country has been mired in instability, war ...

The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian held a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Iraq on Baghadad visit and ...