In 1258, the Mongol Empire unleashed one of the most devastating sieges in history, bringing down the heart of the Islamic ...

He was the driving force behind the US' 2003 invasion of Iraq, warning of the danger from its alleged stockpile of weapons of ...

Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a ...

I have a friend — another movie critic — who refuses to watch documentary films. He can’t imagine how a story emerging from the actual can be as compelling as a narrative born in fiction. He misses a ...

Ubisoft has announced a new History of Baghdad feature for Assassin’s Creed Mirage which will allow players to explore the historical realities of the city as they progress through the campaign.