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A Sumerian palace discovered recently in modern-day Iraq dates back 4,500 years and is considered to contain the key to understanding one of the first civilizations in human history. Since 2015, a team of British Museum-affiliated archaeologists has been excavating...

The US launched strikes in Iran-linked militia targets in Syria and Iraq in response to Sunday's drone attack on a US military base in Jordan that left three soldiers dead. According to US officials, the coordinated attack was against Iran's...

In a very unusual move, Turkey recalled its ambassador to Washington on Monday over a statement made by the United States regarding the recent killing of thirteen kidnapped Turks in the nation of Iraq. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared...

The widely-anticipated Iranian retaliation against the US for the killing of top general Qassem Suleimani started in the early hours of Wednesday, as Tehran launched more than a dozen missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US and coalition troops. Al-Asad Airbase...

A rare copy of the Gospel, handwritten in Greek and translated into Aramaic, was found in the debris of a destroyed Orthodox church in Mosul, Iraq, the Association of Orthodox Journalists reported recently. According to the Orthodoxia News Agency, the...

Iraq and Greece agreed to resume flights between the two countries next Saturday, ending years of halt of Greek flights to Iraq. A statement by the Iraqi Transport Ministry said a delegation from the Iraqi civilian aviation authorities signed a...

"Archaeologists say they have found a lost city that was founded more than two millennia ago following the conquests of Alexander the Great in modern day Iraq. The city is called Qalatga Darband, first discovered using now declassified spy satellite...

The Monastery of Agios Ilias (St Elijah) in Mosul which operated as a place of worship for Orthodox Christians in the region for over 1400 years was completely destroyed by the Islamic State. This was confirmed by new satellite...

Greece expressed its abhorrence of the destruction of antiquities in Mosul’s Museum and Public Library in Iraq by ISIS. "We express our abhorrence of the base and barbaric destruction of the ancient and cultural treasures of inestimable historical value in Iraq...

The recent developments in Iraq -- where a large part of the country is being destroyed by jihadists -- have caused concern in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in regards to the Greeks living in the country. The Ministry released an...

Labeed Abbawi Foreign Ministry Undersecretary for Policy Planning and bilateral relations met on December 1, the Greek ambassador in Baghdad Mr. Markiyos Carfots upon the request of the latter. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries...

Reuters reported that Iraq signed on Wednesday a $349 million contract with Greek leading power plant builder METKA SA for a gas-fired, 1,250-megawatt power plant with General Electric gas turbines technology. The project is scheduled to be build in the...

One of the shortest recorded wars in history which lasted between 38 and 45 minutes was fought in 1896 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar, located off the coast of the African mainland. The immediate cause of the war was...

Kurds are often denied equal access to political representation, economic resources and cultural freedoms in Turkey. Since the 1980s, Turkey has been engaged in a conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which has resulted in over 40,000 deaths. By Recep...

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient...