The BP deal signals a potential resurgence of Western influence in Iraq’s energy sector.

Conflicts leave scars on people—and on communities’ economic and social fabrics. Previous armed conflicts across Iraq have ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are key water sources for Iraq. About 75 percent of Iraq’s water comes from neighboring Iran and Turkey, and 20 to 25 percent is from internal sources.

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

An important water source in Iraq’s southern province of Dhi Qar is drying up, affecting thousands of people and threatening ...

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use to look back in time. And what ...

Lieutenant-Commander Charles Henry Cowley took part in a suicidal mission to reinforce the besieged Kut garrison in ...

According to the World Bank, Iraq is among the top five countries globally most severely impacted by climate change. The bank ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Just as its fragile peace was threatened with attacks by Assad loyalists, Syria finds new ground for unity as a US-backed ...

Born in Baghdad in 1879, Cowley’s remarkable life saw him serve as an intelligence officer in Iraq, where he mastered Arabic and served on steamships up and down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.