Receding waters during an extreme drought revealed a 3,400-year-old city along the Tigris River. Iraq has been experiencing climate change-induced drought for months. Archaeologists are rushing to ...

When an extreme drought caused a 3,400-year-old city to reemerge from a reservoir on the Tigris River in northern Iraq, archaeologists raced to excavate it before the water returned. The Bronze Age ...

BAGHDAD — The Christian archbishop of Basra on Tuesday canceled the celebration of Christmas in that southern city to protest the deaths of a brother and sister, both Christians, as bombings and ...

STORY: The Guards said they launched missile attacks against espionage centers and "gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups" near Iraq's northern city of Erbil, while targeting the "perpetrators ...

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BAGHDAD — Shiite militia fighters clashed with police Sunday in Samawah, a provincial capital in southern Iraq, transforming it into a lawless battleground and exposing rifts that increasingly divide ...

The streets of Qaraqosh, Iraq — also known as Baghdeda — were filled with joy as residents celebrating Palm Sunday carried olive branches and palm fronds in a grand procession of nearly 20,000 ...

Reporting from tuz khurmatu, Iraq — The walls are constructed of cinder blocks, steel and concrete. Some have gates for pedestrian traffic. Others evoke the oppressive days of the Berlin Wall — ...

Iraqis marked the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad—and of their liberation from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny—in eerie silence and fear. Though April 9 was officially a national holiday, Baghdad’s ...

Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world. Credit... Supported by ...

Iraq's port city of Basra is a hub of oil wealth but is poor and angry. Protests have continued for weeks over a lack of drinking water and an excess of political corruption — with some blaming Iran.

A severe drought brought on by climate change revealed an ancient Bronze Age city in Iraq, and gave archaeologists a chance to map it, researchers announced Monday. The drought hit the region in ...