The visual transformation of the river is already apparent. Once known for its shimmering blue waters, the Tigris has taken ...

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

Authorities have suspended water distribution in the district of Koya east of Erbil, after the detection of crude oil contamination in the Lesser Zab River, affecting over 100,000 people, local ...

The Pentagon's auditorium brimmed with emotion today as military leaders, veterans and families gathered to honor retired ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

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 ...

Iraqi populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr has sparked controversy for alleging that the holy Quran was altered following the Prophet Mohammed’s death. In his series, Lectures on Quran ...

at least 94 people died after an overcrowded ferry sank in northern Iraq. Passengers were celebrating Kurdish holidays when the vessel capsized in the Tigris River near Mosul, where heavy rains ...

Over the past decade, repeated droughts have devastated the agricultural sector and led to the desertification of 39% of Iraq’s land, with another 54% facing degradation risk. Levels of the Tigris and ...