The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...

While mapping the route, the team noticed that a site some 20 miles south of Kufa in Iraq's southern Najaf province — a desert area with scattered plots of agricultural land — had features ...

Drought and extreme heat that scientists link to climate change are altering the UNESCO-protected marshlands. Iraq's average annual temperatures are increasing at nearly double the rate of Earth's.

The contamination, resulting from conflicts including the Iran- Iraq War and the 2014-2017 campaign against Daesh, continues to endanger civilians, displace families, restrict farmland access, and ...

Nineveh, once Iraq’s breadbasket, is becoming a dust bowl. Farmers, who came home after Islamic State fled, say they feel abandoned by their country’s leaders, joining a wave of popular anger ...

SOME valuable information regarding the irrigated and non-irrigated land in Iraq is contained in a report by Sir Ernest Dowson on “Land Tenure and Related Questions”(Baghdad: Iraqi Government ...

Ancient humans are believed to have first begun land cultivation in Iraq. Their modern-day counterparts are giving it up.

The area comprised some 14,000 square miles but included only half of the land area claimed by Iraq’s Kurds, and excluded the oil-rich lands around the city of Kirkuk.

Baghdad [Iraq]: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contaminate an estimated 2,100 square kilometres of Iraqi land, a ...