Cultural heritage has become a cornerstone of Iraq's post-Saddam foreign policy. But that same heritage can be more divisive at home. The post Iraq's Cultural Heritage Can Be a Double-Edged Sword ...

Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

Iraq's Embassy in Ankara has officially received 6 ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets from Turkey in a ceremony, part of ...

Iraq's interim minister of culture, Mufid Muhammad Jawad al-Jaza'iri, visited RFE/RL's offices in Prague today. Al-Jaza'iri was appointed to serve as minister of culture last September. A member ...

Cultural institutions in Iraq have become key targets for insurgent bombs. And while a bombed-out book shop in Baghdad tells a grim side of the tale, the rebuilding of Iraq's National Library ...

"Assalamu alaykum, Ahlan wa sahlan, welcome." With these words, Iraqi sheikhs greet a group of marines in a narrow room at the beginning of a training session. The class is part of "Mojave Viper", a ...

Türkiye's Culture and Tourism Ministry returned six cuneiform clay tablets Monday to Iraqi authorities within the scope of ...

The Mosul Cultural Museum in Iraq burst into global consciousness in February 2015 when ISIS, the extremist, terrorist organization locally known as Daesh, posted videos of its adherents toppling ...

Ahmed al-Hayderi performed in a rock band when he was a teenager in Baghdad in the 1970s. Hashim al-Tawil studied painting and became an artist. Those were heady days, a time of diversity and ...

ISTANBUL — The blows just keep on coming. In Mosul, militants who call themselves the Islamic State late last month blew up the Tomb of Jonah — he who the Bible says survived in the belly of a ...

As head chef and co-founder of the Awafi Kitchen, a Boston-based pop-up culinary space dedicated to sharing Iraqi-Jewish food and culture, Rabiyah cooks the Iraqi food she learned from her family.She ...

A blizzard was the last thing that Arabic music icon Kazem Al Sahir needed. On the night before the Las Vegas rehearsals for his U.S. tour, an East Coast snowstorm stranded several members of his 1… ...