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46.1 million people were counted in Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years
Iraq, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File) This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo) FILE -Workers prepare to collect information from the public as Iraq began its ...
Iraq’s top court throws out challenge to new laws, including one increasing Islamic courts authority
Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament.
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Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story
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.