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Rightful status bestowed

12 Jul 2019

Babylon has belatedly been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the international cultural organisation, 36 years after Baghdad applied for the designation. Successive Iraqi governments have pressed for recognition and, for the past 12 years,

Lessons that have not been learnt yet

02 Jun 2019

Ahead of the US Memorial Day holiday on May 27th, Elliot Ackerman wrote an opinion article for the New York Times entitled “A Battle in Fallujah, Revisited.” This battle took place between November 10th and December 10th, 2004. Ackerman began by saying the commemoration was the 15th since that battle in Iraq

In Iraq's desert, truffles aren't a trifle

25 Mar 2019

Would you risk your life for a truffle? In southern Iraq's desolate desert, the dangerous search means nothing less than a quest for treasure, one that mixes equal parts timing, superstition and danger.

Marshes are blossoming in Iraq once again

22 May 2019

After thirty years Iraq's southern marshes are blossoming once more thanks to a wave of ecotourists picnicking and paddling down their replenished river bends.

Yazidi women stitch together incomes for their broken family

14 Jul 2019

At the time, Daesh killed Yazidi men en masse, took boys as child soldiers and sold women as "sex slaves," with survivors streaming into ramshackle displacement camps.

‘Water is life:’ Unexpected rainfall revives Iraq's historic marshlands

24 Apr 2019

Local farmers are counting their blessings after unexpected heavy rainfall at the end of 2018 caused the dams to overflow by early January and water came gushing back to the wetlands in southeastern Iraq.

UK returns 3,000-year-old tablet looted during Iraq War

20 Mar 2019

A 3,000-year-old carved stone tablet from Babylonia, which promises a curse on those who would destroy it, is to be flown home from Britain after being looted during the Iraq War.

Iraqi gets life in jail over teen rape-murder in Germany

10 Jul 2019

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and other extremists have seized on the brutal killing of 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman in their campaign against Chancellor Angela Merkel's asylum policy.

Iraq's former prime minister Abadi eyes second term

13 Jul 2019

As the government of incumbent Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi faces growing criticism over poor services, Abadi has been working in the wings to secure a second term, according to multiple sources.

The dark side of social networking sites

17 May 2019

The 1991 and 2003 US wars on Iraq launched massive pillaging of the Eastern Arab World’s rich cultural heritage because that country could no longer effectively police its 10,000 archaeological sites, benefitting foreign and local looters.

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