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Rolling blackouts, sudden shutdowns: Extreme heat boils — and roils — the Middle East
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIraqis swim in the Tigris River to beat the heat in Baghdad in July. (Hadi Mizban / Associated...
Ancient City Unearthed in Iraq After Extreme Drought Dries up Tigris River, Archeologists Say
People via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Bronze Age city surfaced earlier this year after "large amounts of water" were drawn from the...
Commentary: Iraq is the war no one wants to remember. As an Iraqi American, I can never forget
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHeavy bombing in the area of the presidential compound in central Baghdad soon after the start of...
10 Oldest Countries in the World
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMesopotamia is known as the "cradle of civilization," but it's still not the oldest on this list. Dorling Kindersley / Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley...
Assassin's Creed Mirage's recreation of 9th Century Baghdad is so accurate it made a historian cry
GamesRadar+ via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoBaghdad city and surroundings in Assassin's Creed Mirage. It's not often that video games can say...
Joel Gomez, a wounded Iraq War vet who inspired his hometown, dies
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFormer Army Sgt. Joel Gomez, whose story inspired his hometown to rally behind him, died Tuesday from complications related to the catastrophic injuries he suffered in the Iraq War. Gomez, a ...