its new members and Partnership for Peace (PFP) partners. This antagonism became exacerbated by the war in Iraq and, even as the ‘major hostilities' ended in Iraq and the guerrilla counter-insurgency ...

The battle at the time had political connotations — Iraq was engaged in a devastating war with Iran through much of the 1980s. Saddam pointed to the Battle of Qadisiyah as a harbinger of victory for ...

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

Iraq is still recovering from the reign of Saddam Hussein, the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, decades of sanctions that followed the 1991 invasion of Kuwait, liberation by the U.S.-led “coalition of ...

The political chief of a leading Iraqi militia has told Newsweek that U.S. military bases in the region would face new attacks if Israel or the United States used Iraqi territory to strike at Iran.

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

some refugees in Iraq are still suffering.” He added, “I’m referring to refugees displaced by the war against ISIS. We know everyone needs support, but the Shiite parties and the Imam ...

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“Most people’s preconceptions have been shaped by decades of news reporting focused exclusively on unrest, war, and instability. Over the years, a damaging and misleading picture of Iraq’s ...

Two US service members were injured in Iraq in a joint US-Iraqi raid overnight that killed “multiple ISIS operatives,” according to a Defense Department spokesperson. “My understanding is ...

Esmaeilion is of the generation that can vividly remember the Iran-Iraq War of 1980–88. Many of his novels are set during that conflict, which killed as many as half a million people.

Turkey’s Air Force has struck Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria in apparent retaliation for an attack on a key state-run defence company that killed five people and wounded more than 20.