Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

It was clear what was happening: the tensions with Iraq had finally snapped, and Saddam Hussein was now launching a ...

For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

The Ishtar Gate, housed in the Pergamon Museum, dates back to Ancient Babylonia (modern-day Iraq) Image: Ren Pengfei/Xinhua/picture alliance Many of the buildings that house museums are protected ...

The Akitu Festival, which dates back to at least 2000 BCE, about 4,000 years ago, was one of the most significant annual celebrations in ancient Babylon (modern-day Iraq). Held around the spring ...

While Iraqi dinars could be useful to those living in or near Iraq, there are many reasons to avoid this currency. The Iraqi dinar is the currency of Iraq; like any other currency, it can be ...

Persian New Year is celebrated by a range of countries – from Iran to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Iraq – and occurs on ... is – from which point a three-day festival occurs. One of the major activities ...

The Federal Government of Iraq aims to unify the country under its ... in which the KRG agreed to export up to 550,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from its own fields and Kirkuk via SOMO and ...

Iraq has passed a law that would legalise the marriage of children as young as nine. Three divisive laws have now been passed which give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters ...