It’s all part of a wider aim to establish an Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq and—eventually—farther away in Asia and Africa. Over the centuries, however, the region once known as the ...

Indeed, more than 40 per cent cannot locate Pakistan in Asia. But it is not just overseas ... 2002 found only 13 per cent could point to Iraq on a map. Almost one in 10 could not even point ...

Most American young people can't find Iraq on a map, even though US troops ... Sixty-nine per cent of young people picked out China on a map of Asia, but only about half could find India and ...

The Development Road aims to tie the Grand Faw Port in Iraq's oil-rich south to Turkey, turning the country into a transit hub by shortening travel time between Asia and Europe in a bid to rival ...

Iraq on Saturday presented an ambitious plan to turn itself ... “Customers prefer to transport their goods directly from Asia to Europe, without going through a loading and unloading process,” that ...

Iraq launched a US$17 billion project on Saturday to link a major commodities port on its southern coast by rail and roads to the border with Turkey, in a move designed to transform the country ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

Govt envisions high-speed trains moving goods and passengers at up to 300km per hour A handout picture released by Iraq's Prime Minister's Media Office shows Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia Al ...

The Development Road aims to tie the Grand Faw Port in Iraq's oil-rich south to Turkey, turning the country into a transit hub by shortening travel time between Asia and Europe in a bid to rival ...