The extremist group ISIS shares a territorial "footprint" with an earlier and now-disbanded grassroots effort to battle Sunni jihadists in Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIS's predecessor, had been defeated ...

Weary of sectarian bloodshed, some Baghdad residents have taken to wearing small gold maps of Iraq around their necks to express their loyalty to a unified nation. Tom Bullock reports many Iraqi flags ...

Saddam Hussein’s legacy includes draining Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshland, an integral part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin and once the third-largest wetland in the world. Now, the Biblical Garden ...

Al Qaeda militants are bombing strategic targets in parts of western Iraq, wreaking havoc on their quest to establish an Islamic emirate. The map below gives an indication of how successful they've ...

Click and drag the marker to where you think Iraq is on this map of the Middle East. When you drop it, the answer will appear, and you’ll see how your guess compares with everyone else who has played.