The settlement is located at the site of the present-day village of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. Sargon II was unexpectedly ... Sharrukin to the settlement of Nineveh shortly afterwards.

Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace ... Click a button to explore other objects in the timeline Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq ...

Could it be, then, that the famous gardens were in Nineveh all along ... Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its royal palace. Like his predecessors, he ...

Yet, it also holds special value for Iraq’s Assyrian Christians. Nineveh and surrounding areas ... IS’s destruction of this site revealed an Assyrian palace underneath the church-turned ...

ISIS militants began a full-scale attack in northern and western Iraq in June 2014, taking control of vast areas of land, ...

In June 2014, ISIS launched an all-out offensive in northern and western Iraq, seizing large swathes of territory, including ...

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Iraq held its long-overdue provincial elections in December across 15 provinces, excluding the Kurdistan Region. Nineveh, a multi-ethnic province and home to the Yazidi community, saw a 52 percent ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A military base housing Turkish troops in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh was targeted ... between the two countries, with Iraq filing a complaint against Turkey ...