Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq. Farmer Hadi Saheb (R) accompanied by Fahd ...

NAJAF (Reuters) - Hussein Abd-al Zahra fled the violence around Baghdad but now feels he is fighting a losing battle against the heat and dust in the Iraqi desert. "This place is not even fit for ...

The church is part of a complex that rises from a desert plain in ... Workers polished the large, brightly-colored stained-glass windows. On his historic visit to Iraq in March 2021, Pope Francis ...

Most of the gear will arrive in Kuwait to make the long journey across Iraq’s dangerous desert highways. “Of course there’s fear, especially dealing with the convoys,&#8221 ...

NAJAF, Iraq -- Unexploded rockets stick out of tombstones. Booby-trapped artillery shells lie buried on narrow lanes lined with crypts. Guerrilla fighters hide in a vast sea of pockmarked graves ...

Other issues also loom large between the two countries, including water supply issues and exports of oil and gas from northern Iraq to Turkey, which have been halted for more than a year.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government of ...

Although Iraq's fertile plains traditionally stretch along the once-mighty Tigris and Euphrates -- the two rivers whose levels have plummeted -- Saheb's vast lands lie in the heart of the southern ...