The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. has announced an agreement with Iraq’s government to wrap up the military mission there of an American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group. By next year ...

publishes up-to-date figures on population growth rates for 236 countries and territories around the world, which can be visualized in the map below. The top 10 countries in the CIA's list for ...