BAGHDAD -- Visitors reach the graves of the first Western empire builders in Iraq by first pretending to throw a rock at the graveyard dog. The wife of the grave keeper comes out to hold back the ...

KABERLI Iraq (Reuters) - A new map is being drawn across the plains of northern Iraq as Sunni militants of the Islamic State purge the rural landscape of religious and ethnic minorities that have ...

Summary Map covers two sheets of paper, which, when laid side by side, show an area in southern Iraq. Weston seems to have been concerned primarily with the water in the area, carefully labeling all ...

For thousands of years, humans have been making maps. Early maps often charted constellations. They were painted onto cave walls or carved into stone. As people began to travel and explore more of the ...

A 3,400-year-old city believed to be central to the Mittani Empire re-emerged from the Tigris River earlier this year due to extreme drought in Iraq, scientists said Tuesday.

Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its fragile calm.

An American sociologist interested in police and police reform, Wozniak took himself to Iraq to study the construction of a new police force in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion in 2003 and the ...