Oil, natural resources, religion and history are all powerful attractions compelling many parties to fight for a hand in Iraq. From the Islamic Caliphates to today's Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...

The extremist group ISIS shares a territorial "footprint" with an earlier and now-disbanded grassroots effort to battle Sunni jihadists in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS's predecessor, had been defeated ...

Just two years after the withdrawal of US troops, Iraq has again been plunged into sectarian-fuelled violence and chaos. Terrorist group IS (Islamic State) has routed the Iraqi army in the north of ...

Iraq is in chaos, as a group of Islamic militants has overrun the northwestern part of the country. And that means plenty of headlines like this one: "Oil prices spike as Iraq violence flares." So ...

A road map to freedom was born when swishes of blue arrows drew liberty's march on the brown terrain of Iraq. Academia around the world now can see a visualization of the opening days of that march ...

A worker rides a bicycle at the Najaf oil refinery in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad, October 3, 2013. REUTERS/Ahmad Mousa While recent headlines out of Iraq mostly tell of worsening ...

Now that the official case for attacking Iraq made by the US and British governments has started to unravel, the question of the real reason for unleashing this death and destruction has become a hot ...

Click and drag the marker to where you think Iraq is on this map of the Middle East. When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has played.

The number of British troops in Iraq has come down from 9,000, to just 5,500 in the Basra province. Their tasks include training Iraqi forces, securing the Iraq/Iran border, securing supply routes, ...