Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of Iraq Iraq’s army is now being told to “defend” the desert and the homeland so that “Iraq will not be a launchpad or ...

In Iraq, a local shepherd noticed something unusual. Helicopters were flying low. Strange activity was stirring in a remote stretch of the western desert. What he could not have known was that he had ...

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq. He is just one of many Iraqis who have turned ...

KARBALA, Iraq (Reuters) -Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears sandals and black clothes that absorb the heat, ...

Al-Aqiser archaeological site in Iraq, home to what is considered one of the world’s oldest churches, is a victim of neglect and climate change like many of Iraqi ...

The truck rattling by at 2 p.m. March 3 was a familiar sight to residents of the Bedouin encampment in Iraq’s rugged western desert — a local shepherd’s pickup, en route to the nearest town of ...

BAGHDAD — Israeli forces set up a post in the desert in Iraq at the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, Iraqi and U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The existence of the secret Israeli ...

Iraqi Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yar Allah visited a desert region of the country southwest of Najaf and Karbala on May 12. He wanted to show that Iraq has the ability to secure its own ...

Iraqi farmer Hadi Saheb says he is cultivating 20 times more land than before in the Najaf desert thanks to groundwater and a government initiative — Qassem al-KAABI Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to ...