"Ahlan Simsim" is both the name of a childhood development program and an Arabic-language TV show featuring "Sesame Street" ...

Saddam Hussein has been shown on Iraqi television walking through cheering crowds in an apparent attempt to rally support and show the world ... had appeared on TV after days of speculation ...

Prisoners accused by the Iraqi government of being members of Islamic State confess to their crimes and face victims' families on a reality TV show called "In the Grip of the Law." WSJ's Reem Makhoul ...

The evolution of the former Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, from the start of the 1980's Iran-Iraq war to the excalation of the ISIS/Daesh insurgency. in the 2000s.

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons agreed with CNN host Michael Smerconish that funding a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq could be a good use of taxpayer funding to teach "values" to Iraqi children.

A Sesame Workshop spokesperson said via email that the "Ahlan Simsim" TV show is funded separately from the Ahlan Simsim Iraq early childhood development program. They added that only the latter ...