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Iraqi officials say a fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people in eastern ...
Iraq broke ground Wednesday on a $2 billion project to build a residential city outside of Baghdad, with two Chinese firms starting construction on 30,000 housing units.
Baghdad Medical City, Iraq Time frame: 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024 Profile. The positions in the table below ...
Our next destination was Dur-Kurigalzu, an ancient ruined city that has an enormous, 70-meter-tall ziggurat. It’s 45 minutes west of Baghdad. It dates back over 3400 years in the Neo-Babylonian ...
In addition to Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, the areas hardest hit by the fighting between Maliki’s government forces and Sadr’s militias are the two mainly Shiite parts of Baghdad: Sadr City, a ...
Receding waters during an extreme drought revealed a 3,400-year-old city along the Tigris River.; Iraq has been experiencing climate change-induced drought for months. Archaeologists are rushing ...
A sprawling 3,400-year-old city emerged in Iraq after a reservoir’s water level swiftly dropped due to extreme drought. Kurdish and German archaeologists excavated the settlement in the Mosul ...
When the Islamic State took over parts of Iraq in 2014 and declared the city of Mosul the capital of its caliphate, life as Iraqis knew it in the country’s second-biggest city essentially stopped.
His new book, “A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War,” offers not simply an account of Iraq’s troubles but a powerful and beautifully written portrait of the ...
The property of Jews who left Iraq will be auctioned off in the central marketplace of Bagdad tomorrow, Radio Bagdad announced today. An estimated 130,000 Iraqi Jews quit Iraq for Israel in the ...
Receding waters during an extreme drought revealed a 3,400-year-old city along the Tigris River. Iraq has been experiencing climate change-induced drought for months. Archaeologists are rushing to ...
Drought in Iraq Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City Archaeologists raced against time to map the once-submerged ancient metropolis. Jane Recker - Daily Correspondent. June 6, 2022. Get our newsletter!