Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts ...

As they walked through the streets of Qaraqosh, participants sang Palm Sunday hymns in both Arabic and Syriac and waved olive ...

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni, centre, attends a ceremony at the Angkor Wat Temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. EPA ...

From 27 March BBC account holders across the UK will start to receive an online questionnaire to help identify what they want from the BBC now, and what they want from it in the future ...

Nottingham hospital workers have begun five days of strikes after a union accused the city's NHS trust of not paying its staff fairly. Some healthcare assistants at Nottingham University Hospitals ...

Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people. The Tigris River roughly bisects the vast city ...

Two mortar rounds hit Baghdad near the convention centre where ... any casualties or damage inside the heavily fortified city centre compound known as the Green Zone, which contains the ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Progress continues to be made on major construction works across Aberdeen as part of the £150million City Centre and Beach Masterplan (CCBMP), a committee heard today. The updates to the Council’s ...

A city centre shopping centre has closed suddenly, but shops and business owners have not yet been told why. Stores, pubs and restaurants at The Square shopping centre in Birmingham closed on ...