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The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...
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 ...
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their ...
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.
Iraq has been burdened with wars, sanctions, and domestic conflict for over 40 years, but the potential economic and environmental fallout of the climate crisis is by far one of the most serious ...