That schism remains to this day ... world peace, carved up the former Ottoman Empire and unified the three provinces under British rule, essentially demarcating the modern boundaries of Iraq.

The U.S. may be going to war with Iraq, but a survey finds that an overwhelming number of young adults don't have a clue as to where that country is on a world map. A National Geographic survey of ...

My topographic engineering unit was responsible for providing coalition forces with GIS analysis, map production, and geodetic surveys. For my second tour in Iraq (2007–2008), I ... but we went back ...

The six maps below attempt to show how Iraq and Syria came into being as modern states and the internal and external forces that have shaped them since then. During World War I, diplomats from ...

a site currently on the tentative list to become a world heritage site. Ashur, also known as Assur, is a city in modern-day Iraq that dates back to the third millennium, and it later became the ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Weary of sectarian bloodshed, some Baghdad residents have taken to wearing small gold maps of Iraq around their necks ... wearing the map necklace every day. Some men wear the map as well as ...