Ben Macintyre, author of 'Agent Zigzag', recounts in 'The Siege' the takeover of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980, a ...

ACCORDING TO ONE legend, the Kurds are descended from 400 virgins who were raped by devils on the way to King Solomon's court. Fatah Kavian, a member of the central committee of the anti-Khomeini ...

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Starting in 2021, a research team led by Musallam R. al-Rawahneh—an associate professor of archeology and ancient Near East ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

Night - Sunny. Winds WNW at 11 mph (17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 83 °F (28.3 °C). Sunny with a high of 107 °F (41.7 °C). Winds from WNW to NW at 11 to 16 mph (17.7 to 25.7 kph). Haze ...

A 38-year-old Middle East scholar from Israel was kidnapped in 2023 while doing research in Iraq, and officials from several countries say progress is being made to secure her release. The family ...

Zain Omantel International (ZOI) has announced a partnership with Iraq's Horizon Scope Telecom and the Iraqi Telecommunications and Information Company (ITPC), a government-owned company under the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — With the world’s attention fixed on efforts to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, talks are quietly continuing to liberate an Israeli hostage held in Iraq ...

Iraq’s water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said yesterday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks. Water is a major issue ...