The Iraqi culture minister revealed on Monday that the construction of a new museum in the Green Zone in Baghdad will begin ...

From the very beginning of the U.S. intervention in Iraq and the effort to build some kind of democracy there, a simple but gnawing question has lurked in the background: Was Iraq the way Iraq was (a ...

Years of war and insurgency have taken a heavy toll on Iraq's many cultural treasures — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Wandering Baghdad's legendary book street, recently renovated, the UN's cultural chief pledged ...

DAMASCUS, Syria, April 3 (UNHCR) - As the Iraq crisis enters its sixth year, the UN refugee agency has been highlighting the culture and artistic talents of the Iraqi people during a weeklong festival ...

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does a ...

ThatIraqi Artists in Exile, at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, serves up a scathing view of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But the exhibit goes ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Before he quit as head of Iraq’s antiquities board, Donny George made a final desperate attempt this summer to safeguard the relics of 5,000 years of history: He ordered the doors of ...

Eight Iraqi doctors and an Iraqi journalist are traveling around Minnesota to increase cultural understanding between Iraq and U.S. citizens. The Iraqi doctors shared what it's like living through war ...

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Military conflicts in Iraq are back on the front pages of American newspapers after U.S. troops left there at the end of 2011. Retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni, who served in 80 countries and ...

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