FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water was essential. It’s hardly surprising, then, that this tablet, which maps an area near ...

This map shows the status of Iraq as of June 19 ... the Kurdish region took control of it after federal troops quit the area. The city is the heart of a swathe of disputed territory which the ...

True, as the map above shows ... another major oil-producing area. But the fighting has threatened some of Iraq’s other oil infrastructure, including a pipeline that can deliver 600,000 barrels ...

Flames emerge from flare stacks at the oil fields in Dibis area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, Iraq October 17, 2017 [Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters] But when it comes to oil, it is clear that the conflict ...