With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...

Researchers used declassified spy satellite images to pinpoint the historic Battle of al-Qadisiyyah ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

The Israeli military has reportedly identified targets in Iraq to strike if Iran launches attacks from there. Reports indicate that Israel has warned Baghdad of consequences if it permits Iran-backed ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead ... say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a double ring ...

A major discovery in Iraq’s historic Babylon Governorate is a significant ... and—in addition to the individual artifacts ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between ... undertaking a remote sensing survey to map the Darb Zubaydah, a pilgrimage route ...

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...