Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The humiliating retreat from the southern Iraqi city of Basra, into cantonment at the airport, is widely regarded as the modern nadir of the British military. On 2 September 2007, a bugle sounded ...

Over 100 tour operators from 33 countries have been invited to attend the event, according to Moslem Shojaei, ...

New leaked documents show photos of Syria's president Ahmed al-Shara'a and claim to reveal details about his connections to ...

Sitting in his office in Saddam's former Basra palace, Jepsen recalls his first year—2003—in Iraq wistfully. In those days, he says, he could climb into his four-by-four and venture deep into ...

She has been involved in high-profile cases before Harry's latest, including her work representing the family of Baha Mousa who died in British custody in the Iraqi city of Basra in 2003.

During afternoon teas at the palace, she reeled out her vision of ... he was refusing to suppress anti-British demonstrations in Baghdad and Basra. “There’s always this problem of needing ...

Al-Hajjaj achieves his goal by meeting the Caliph Abdul Malik after the Caliph wishes him to take control of the soldiers despite his recent appointment within the palace. Musa'b bin ... appoints Ibn ...

Al-Hajjaj achieves his goal by meeting the Caliph Abdul Malik after the Caliph wishes him to take control of the soldiers despite his recent appointment within the palace. Musa'b bin ... appoints Ibn ...

China’s relationship with the Gulf region evidently dates back; it is said that when Arabs seized the port of Abila near Basra during the caliphate of ... his expertise by challenging him to train the ...