More on: Iraq This publication is now archived.What part can tribes play in Iraqi politics?Experts disagree. U.S. military officials have sought the cooperation of many local tribal… ...

This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian land and northern Iraqi ground in its first effort. A later expansion under Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1500s captured the rest of Iraq.

Iraq. Click map to view. The Anbar tribes’ turn against al Qaeda has developed significantly since the end of the Anbar Campaign late last year, which swept al Qaeda and the insurgency from the major ...

The "oldest map of the world in the world" on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to the British Museum's Irving Finkel.

Jihadi extremists and Sunni tribes have commandeered north Iraq and are fighting Iran-backed Shia militiamen and volunteers within 50 miles of Baghdad.

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

In an interview, Jafari insisted yesterday that recent U.S.-Iraq offensives have improved security "dramatically," echoing the administration's prediction that insurgency is in its death throes.

THE big maps on the walls of the sprawling American base known as Camp Victory, next to Baghdad's main airport, show Iraq as a country divided into parts more or less dominated by either Sunni or ...

Islamic State militants have killed 322 members of an Iraqi tribe in western Anbar province, including dozens of women and children whose bodies were dumped in a well, the government said in the ...

Some Sunni tribes in Syria and Iraq, driven from their ancient lands by Islamic State (IS), are planning their return in a post-IS scenario.

BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants have killed 322 members of an Iraqi tribe in western Anbar province, including dozens of women and children whose bodies were dumped in a well, the government ...

The Albu Soda tribe fought al Qaeda in Iraq in Ramadi, Coalition forces assist Iraq. Click map to view. The 25 tribes of the Anbar Salvation Council and ...