As Kurds themselves face persecution from both Turkey and Iran, their violence against Assyrians has only intensified through ...

The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city ...

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

Iraq makes rare seizure of ship suspected of fuel smuggling in Gulf Iraqi naval forces have seized an unidentified ship in Iraqi territorial waters in the Gulf suspected of smuggling fuel, the ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, U.S. Central ...

IRAQI military forces engaged in the operation to drive Islamic State (Isis) from Mosul confirmed the liberation of the ancient city of Nimrud yesterday. Mosul operational commander Lieutenant ...

Prime Minister al-Sudani hails the killing of Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay’i as a major blow to ISIL remnants in Iraq. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al ...

She hailed from Iraq, spoke modern Aramaic ... What's more, ancient Assyrian artifacts located in the historic Nimrud and Tikrit were desecrated or outright destroyed by ISIS militants.