By Joe Bob Briggs NEW YORK, (UPI) – Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are: Twelve thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming. They got to be so good at it t...

In ancient times the land area now known as modern Iraq was almost equivalent to Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates (in Arabic, the Dijla and Furat, respectively), th...

1914 - 1930 In November 1914, after the Ottoman Empire entered World War I (1914-1918) as an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary, a British army division landed at Al Fāw, near Iraq’s southern tip,...

In ancient times the land area now known as modern Iraq was almost equivalent to Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates (in Arabic, the Dijla and Furat, respectively), th...

Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, with more than 4 million peoples, situated in the interior of the country on the river Tigris at the point where land transportation meets river transportation. Amon...