This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian ... and essentially created new borders for its autonomous region in Iraq. After ISIL took Kirkuk in the northeast, Kurd forces took ...

As the United States’ air war in Iraq moves into its second month, there are a lot of ways to crunch the data that has been released. One is to track what has been hit. Another, depicted above ...

Understanding why could help predict future earthquakes. Tectonic changes are forcing the Zagros Mountains region in Iraq to sink. These processes take tens of millions of years to occur.