Iraq News News Iraq » History: The invasion of Iraq defined US’ foreign relations – but in popular Iraqi literature, the war is just a piece of the country’s complex history
It’s been just over 20 years since the United States invaded Iraq. Some Americans have largely forgotten about the invasion, despite the fact the Sept. 11 attacks that precipitated it still loom large ...
News Iraq » History: ‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
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 ...
News Iraq » History: The Man Who Wants to Make Iraq Great Again
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Twenty years after Iraq held its first election in the wake of the U.S.
News Iraq » History: Occupying Iraq: A British History
As U.S. forces advance toward Baghdad, some are headed for the eastern Iraqi city of Al Kut. If history is any judge, that could be a mistake. During World War I, when the British invaded Iraq — then ...
News Iraq » History: Book Review: ‘Land Between the Rivers,’ by Bartle Bull
A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. Share full ...
News Iraq » History: Enslaved Africans, an uprising and an ancient farming system in Iraq: Study sheds light on timelines
Written accounts tell the story of the Zanj rebellion—a slave revolt that took place in the late 9th century in southern Iraq. Some of the rebels were enslaved Africans working in various sectors of ...
News Iraq » History: Phebe Marr, scholar of Iraq’s history and upheavals, dies at 93
In 1957, a 26-year-old American woman carrying an English-Arabic dictionary and an address in Baghdad boarded a bus in Beirut for a two-day journey to Iraq’s capital. She had grown tired of the ...
News Iraq » History: Iraq History Lesson
"Today the guns are silent. . . . The entire world is quietly at peace." So said Douglas MacArthur in September 1945. Last week, seeing that quotation, now inscribed in stone at the new National World ...
News Iraq » History: Iran-Iraq War | Animated History (REMASTER IN DESCRIPTION)
Armchair Historian Iran-Iraq War | Animated History (REMASTER IN DESCRIPTION) Posted: August 6, 2025 | Last updated: August 7, 2025 ...