One of the world's earliest empires, Assyria represents a crucial part of Iraq's cultural identity, which the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attempted to erase by destroying many ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities announced Friday the recovery of an ancient Assyrian panel from Britain. The artifact was formally handed over to ...

Restoration of Iraq's archaeological site of Nimrud, which was destroyed by Islamic State militants, is well underway in the ...

Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the UNESCO-listed archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria in ...

Momika’s actions contributed to a series of copycat protests in Denmark, where copies of the Quran were burned outside the embassies of several Muslim-majority countries.

Salwan Momika, a man who gained international attention in 2023 after publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot in an ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. Once the ...

Salwan Momika, 38, an Iraqi involved in Quran burnings, was killed in a shootout in Sodertalje. His death occurred a day ...