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As Iraqi forces prepare to try to recapture the city of Falluja, tens of thousands of civilians find themselves trapped…

CNN's Ben Wedeman meets the team trying to preserve what's left of the ancient city of Babylon for future generations. 

The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries has passed 4 million, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Thursday,…

An Iraqi court sentenced 24 people to death on Wednesday over the killing of hundreds of soldiers last year at…

Iraqi Shi'ite fighters and army troops made gains north of Falluja on Sunday but their efforts to seal off Islamic…

Two car bombs killed 11 people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, police and medical sources said, striking as…

The head of the UN cultural organisation on Wednesday called for a campaign against the "culture cleansing" being carried out…

Iraqi forces have cleared Islamic State militants from most of the northern town of Baiji and hope to drive them…

Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of…

An Egyptian human rights organization has told the United Nations that defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria can…