Iraq

The Mosul Dam along the Tigris river, where the ancient city was discovered. Photo: ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP (Getty Images)An ongoing drought in Iraq revealed a sunken Bronze Age city.In an effort to stop crops in the area from wilting through months of drought and regional water shortages, locals have drained the Mosul Dam since December, and the receding water has uncovered the ancient structures along the river. According to a University of Tübingen release—which contains several fascinating photos of the site—the city…

The two world wars that transformed the world were sweeping in their magnitude. But what followed thereafter was perhaps the twentieth century’s most protracted and unconventional conflict. The Cold War, fought over four decades – precisely from the rise to power of the Bolsheviks in October 1917 to the fall of the Soviet regime in August 1991 – involving every superpower and lesser power on every continent, remains unmatched in terms of its length and complexity.Thomas H. Henriksen’s America’s Wars: Interventions,…

By Michael Carlowicz, NASA Earth Observatory May 20, 2022May 16, 2022At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the past six weeks.Iraq and other countries of the Middle East have been battered by a series of severe dust storms since the beginning of April 2022. Thousands of people have been hospitalized as a result of two severe storms in the last two weeks, since poor air quality from airborne dust may worsen asthma and other respiratory disorders.As visibility decreased to a few…

Article content WASHINGTON — Former U.S. President George W. Bush mistakenly described the invasion of Iraq as “brutal” and “unjustified” before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Bush made the comments in a speech during an event in Dallas on Wednesday, while he was criticizing Russia’s political system. “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” Bush said, before…

Sweden's Ericsson said Wednesday that US authorities have found its disclosures about an internal inquiry into its conduct in Iraq, including suspected bribes to the Islamic State group, "insufficient".The news from the telecom equipment maker sent shares tumbling, and they were down over 12 percent around midday on the Stockholm stock exchange.The company's value had already taken a beating in recent weeks over the anticipated publication of a media investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of…

Swedish telecoms equipment giant Ericsson said Thursday it will likely have to pay new fines to the US Department of Justice over suspected bribes to the Islamic State group in Iraq.Chief executive Borje Ekholm conceded in a newspaper interview in February that some of Ericsson employees may have bribed IS members for road transport through areas controlled by the group in Iraq.The admission was made before the publication of a report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) revealing that an…