As bases were closed and troops withdrew from cities, the existing bases need ... Rogers used a digital copy of a 1961 map of Iraq created by the Iraq Director of Antiquities and, through a ...

And then there are Sunni Arabs who live in the western half of Iraq and are a political minority. Many Sunni Arabs are the ones joining and supporting the ISIS takeover. Map locates cities in Iraq ...

ISIL, also known as ISIS, no longer holds towns and cities, but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the Iraq-Syria border. Iraq’s military has launched another offensive to ...

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 ...