"Three Kalashnikovs against my head," said Samir, an Assyrian, former diamond and gold merchant, describing how al-Qaeda stole his business in Baghdad in 2010.
Decades of mismanagement, underinvestment and corruption have strained the power grid of Iraq, which is OPEC's second-largest producer after Saudi Arabia.
The so-called peace deal repeats the same mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan, trusting corrupt systems, rebuilding terrorist states, and ignoring the religious roots of jihad ...
Over the past few years, while attending the World Boardgaming Championships, we have met with Gregory M. Smith and discussed many of his ongoing designs. One that we have chatted about a couple ti ...
Col. Kevin Randle -- former Vietnam helicopter pilot, former Iraq intelligence officer, UFO expert and specialist -- on what happened in July 1947 in Roswell, a crappy little town of then maybe 50,00 ...
In Iraq, the biggest day for Christian church attendance is Friday, the Muslim day of prayer, because, according to the government calendar, Sunday is a normal workday.
A Peace plan brokered by the US President came into effect at noon local time (10am BST) on Friday, marking an end to two years of devastating war that has ravaged Gaza.