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Two decades ago, U.S. air and ground forces invaded Iraq in what then-President George W. Bush said was an effort to disarm the country, free its people and "defend the world from grave danger." In ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. Share full ...

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent ...

On June 18, Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid presided over a ceremony in Baghdad Palace to receive an Assyrian artifact from the 8th century BCE, which had been returned to Iraq by the Italian ...

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s ...

A newly documented Christian complex in Northern Iraq is forcing historians to rethink how faith communities shared sacred ground in late antiquity. The 1,500-year-old church, uncovered beside a ...

Iraq holds a clear historical edge over Jordan, boasting 21 wins in 34 official and friendly meetings, compared to just 8 Jordanian victories and 5 draws. This dominance has spanned several decades, ...

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to Georgetown University professor Edmund A. Ghareeb about the history of Iraq's 800,000-strong Christian community and its relations with the country's Muslim majority.