Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, 127 pp, $45. The History of Iraq is a Cliff’s Notes to Iraq’s past that, according to its foreword, seeks to provide “students and interested laypeople with [an ...

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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Professors and pundits widely condemn the decision to liberate Iraq. History will show the critics to be wrong. Announcing the start ...

Archaeologists from Germany have returned from northern Iraq without museum-ready artifacts but with rare insight into how ...

Two decades ago, U.S. air and ground forces invaded Iraq in what then-President George W. Bush said was an effort to disarm the country, free its people and "defend the world from grave danger." In ...

In response to “Army’s Iraq Lessons: Written, Withheld” (page one, Oct. 23): This history of the Army’s performance in the Iraq war must be published so that future leaders can make more intelligent ...

Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ...

March 18, 2005 — -- As America geared up for the war against Iraq that began two years ago Saturday, there was talk of a "cakewalk" and a swift departure once the regime of Saddam Hussein fell.

THE first Natural History Museum in. Iraq, which is under the auspices of the Iraqi Ministry of Education, was established early in 1946. The formal opening by the Regent of Iraq took place on May 2, ...

BAGHDAD — The myth of a unified Iraqi identity may have finally been laid to rest this month. More clearly than any other measurement since the U.S.-led 2003 invasion, preliminary results from the Dec ...

WASHINGTON—Army chief of staff Gen. Ray Odierno issued the marching orders in the fall of 2013. Some of the Army’s brightest officers would draft an unvarnished history of its performance in the Iraq ...

In recent years, some Kurdish and Arab politicians and wanna-be historians have been making statements that the Assyrians of Iraq were refugees from Hakkari, Turkey and that the British brought them ...