High up in Iraq’s Zagros Mountains, on the country’s northern border, six of us hike slowly into the growing light of day. As we walk in silence, each of us focused on the narrow beam of light from ...

Ivan Castro, a former Army Ranger, gingerly makes his way down the ski slopes, guided by instructors down a snow-packed Idaho mountain. For this Iraq war veteran, his goal is simple: make it from the ...

FISHKHABOUR, Iraq — They ran from the sound of the Sunni militants’ guns in the night last weekend. Carrying almost nothing, thousands of Yazidis fled to their holy sites on Mount Sinjar in northern ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

US troops assessed the situation Wednesday of thousands of civilian refugees trapped by jihadists on a northern Iraqi mountain, after the United States carried out air strikes against Islamic State ...

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq - A bright red, white and blue flag with the words "Climb to Glory" now flies above Multi- National Division - Center headquarters, symbolizing the transfer of authority from the ...

WASHINGTON — Roughly 4,500 people remain atop northern Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain, and nearly half are herders who lived there before the siege and have no interest in being evacuated, two U.S. officials ...

The United States is sending more troops to northern Iraq, a move that U.S. officials told CNN on Tuesday is necessary to help in the rescue of tens of thousands of Yazidis trapped in the mountains by ...

Plans for an independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan have angered Ankara and Tehran, but little has changed for Iranian Kurdish rebels at rear bases in the mountains of northern Iraq. A spokesman ...

Iraqi militants seized control Thursday of the country's largest Christian city -- reportedly telling its residents to leave, convert or die -- while members of another religious minority remained ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has approved military air drops of humanitarian supplies in northern Iraq for religious minorities fleeing attacks by Islamist militants and they could start ...

There the Greeks spent a happy night, with plenty to eat, talking about the struggle now past. For they had been seven days passing through the country of the Kurds, fighting all the time, and they ...