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American leaders should reject any form of mission creep in the Middle East – including state building and countering Iranian ...

The geographic area we now call Iraq has long sat between empires as a battleground, bridge or frontier ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

The Iraqi Prime Minister confirmed on Saturday that the strategic project of the Development Road will turn Iraq into an open ...

When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of ...

Four ISIS leaders were killed as a result of raid in western Iraq late last month, the US military said Friday.

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ...

The Babylonian Map of the World, originating from ancient Iraq around the sixth century B.C., is the oldest known map.

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...