Troops and helicopter gunships hit ISIL positions in the Tikrit area, including the University of Tikrit campus in the city's north end. Boukamal: This eastern Syrian town on the Iraq border was ...

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 ...

The map below gives an indication of ... and fights to control the shared borders of both Iraq and Turkey. "Establishing a geographical area comprising natural resources such as oil and gas ...

Map locates Epicenter of quake.; 1c x 3 inches; 46.5 mm x 76 mm; TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian state TV says a 7.2-magnitude earthquake has jolted the region near the border between Iran and Iraq.

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 ...

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 ...

In Iraq, after the capture of the Qarqashah area, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pointedly demanded a halt to the peshmerga advances. But the Kurds refused. The Kurdish regional government's ...