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Weary of sectarian bloodshed, some Baghdad residents have taken to wearing small gold maps of Iraq around their necks to express their loyalty to a unified nation.
In the buildup to a long-awaited offensive on the city of Mosul, Kurdish forces are seizing new territory in northern Iraq that they say will become part of their autonomous region.
Object Details Printed by National Imagery and Mapping Agency, American, 1996 - 2003 Used by Andre M. Jones Subject of 547th Transportation Company, American Description Map of the city of Fallujah.
Summary Map covers two sheets of paper, which, when laid side by side, show an area in southern Iraq. Weston seems to have been concerned primarily with the water in the area, carefully labeling all ...
A new map is being drawn across the plains of northern Iraq as Sunni militants of the Islamic State purge the rural landscape of religious and ethnic minorities that have co-existed for hundreds ...
BAGHDAD -- Visitors reach the graves of the first Western empire builders in Iraq by first pretending to throw a rock at the graveyard dog. The wife of the grave keeper comes out to hold back the ...
Alex Chadwick talks about the week ahead in politics with NPR senior Washington, D.C., editor Ron Elving. They discuss President Bush's latest speech on Iraq, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to ...
While the national memorial goes through a lengthy planning and fundraising process, veterans are working with state and local governments to build smaller monuments around the country.
They are unlikely allies — an athletic, down-home Texan who once owned a baseball team and a soft-spoken Iraqi family doctor who spent almost a decade of exile in Iran. George Bush, a born-again ...