Two decades ago, U.S. air and ground forces invaded Iraq in what then-President George W. Bush said was an effort to disarm the country, free its people and "defend the world from grave danger." In ...

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I recently had the privilege to participate in a retrospective symposium marking the 20th anniversary of the American war in Iraq. Hosted by Columbus State University and the National Infantry Museum, ...

In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent ...

Archaeologists working in northern Iraq have uncovered a 1,500‑year‑old religious complex that is forcing scholars to rethink when and how different faiths managed to live side by side. At a site ...

On June 18, Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid presided over a ceremony in Baghdad Palace to receive an Assyrian artifact from the 8th century BCE, which had been returned to Iraq by the Italian ...

A newly documented Christian complex in Northern Iraq is forcing historians to rethink how faith communities shared sacred ground in late antiquity. The 1,500-year-old church, uncovered beside a ...

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to Georgetown University professor Edmund A. Ghareeb about the history of Iraq's 800,000-strong Christian community and its relations with the country's Muslim majority.

Dec 7 (Reuters) - Iraq on Dec. 11-12 will hold its second auction since the 2003 U.S. invasion of oilfield service contracts, ramping up its efforts to lure foreign oil companies back into the country ...