The apprehension of many, myself included, about the inflated stature that Netanyahu’s Israel will enjoy in the region following recent regional developments is well founded, especially since every ...

Lew Alcindor (Kareem) and Bill Walton were both No. 1 NBA draft picks who won multiple championships and lived up to all the ...

Jared Mokowitz, the Democratic member representing Florida, in the US House of Representatives moved a resolution (H.Res. 105 ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘of a fate similar to Saddam Hussein’. The Iraqi dictator ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly ...

The attempt to apply the name "Arabian Gulf" to the Persian Gulf originated in 1958, when Iraq’s General Abdul Karim Qasim, seeking pan-Arab leadership, began promoting the term for political gain.

Thursday, 19 September 2013 The media adviser to Prime Minister, Ali al-Moussawi announced on Thursday that Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki is not satisfied with the decision of the Martyrs Foundation ...

Princess Badea Ali was the daughter of King Ali of Hijaz and the granddaughter of Al-Sharif Hussain and a member of the Hashemite dynasty, which had ruled Iraq since 1921. On July 14, 1958, a coup led ...

The crisis had been growing in Lebanon, and on July 13 Colonel Abd al-Karim Qasim, a military officer (who became prime minister), moved in on Baghdad and mounted a coup d’état.

They also experienced positive periods in which they were treated with relative tolerance (e.g. the first two centuries of the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258); the period of the Millet ...

They also experienced positive periods in which they were treated with relative tolerance (e.g. the first two centuries of the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258); the period of the Millet system ...

Of particular note is the Meem Gallery’s presentation on outstanding Iraqi modernists, including Mahmoud Sabri, who studied at the Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow from 1963, combining socialism and ...