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After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of ...

Islamic State (IS) militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as ...

A worrying decline in aid for education With every dollar invested in education generating GDP growth of 15 to 20 dollars, education is one of the best investments a country can make. According to ...

Faced with a sharp drop in international aid for education and uneven funding for culture and sciences, UNESCO is sounding the alarm and calling on ...

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday to increase water releases to Iraq. During their meeting in Turkey, where they discussed […] ...

THE first ever bombshell footage of the infamous “Mosul orb” UFO captured by a US spy plane in Iraq has now been released.

Rail travel once linked Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, until war and air traffic shut it down. Now, major reconstruction plans aim to revive it over the next 15 years ...

A herd of water buffalo swim past a fishing boat in the Shatt al-Arab river north of the southern Iraq city of Basra. The Shatt al-Arab, which flows from the presumed biblical site of the Garden of ...