BAGHDAD -- Visitors reach the graves of the first Western empire builders in Iraq by first pretending to throw a rock at the graveyard dog. The wife of the grave keeper comes out to hold back the ...

By the 19th century, the tribal map of Iraq was filled out by other powerful confederations and tribes, including the Shammar, the ’Anaza, the Bani Tamim, and the Zafir.

Tribal leaders have been meeting with local authorities to map out plans. Tribes have had difficulties under IS rule, with some leaders fleeing and others left behind in IS territory.

The fact that the Sons of Iraq or the leaders of Jordan and Iraq emerged under US and British support, illustrate that these tribal structures often require outside support.

TAJI, Iraq — At the height of sectarian fighting here in the summer of 2006, Sunni tribesman surrounded a house in an isolated Shiite village being wiped off the map. According to U.S ...

In Iraq, U.S. commanders are offering large sums to enlist, at breakneck pace, their former enemies, handing them broad security powers in a risky effort to tame a fractious area south of Baghdad ...

Iraq's media regulator has ordered the cancellation of a Ramadan television series accused of portraying the country's tribal leaders as salacious despots, following anger from politicians and ...

This historic map shows that the tribes had taken Syrian land and northern Iraqi ground in its first effort. A later expansion under Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1500s captured the rest of Iraq.

THE big maps on the walls of the sprawling American base known as Camp Victory, next to Baghdad's main airport, show Iraq as a country divided into parts more or less dominated by either Sunni or ...

13 March 2014 In offices above busy commercial streets here in the Jordanian capital, Iraqi tribal and religious leaders are plotting a revolution in their own country," The Washington Post said in ...

In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat , Sheikh Ali Hatim Al-Suleimani, the head of the Dulaim, Iraq’s largest tribe, which lives in Anbar province, has described the latest events as a tribal revolt.

According to David William Lazar's American Mesopotamian Organization (AMO), Kurdish tribes close to the ruling Barzani family of the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) have stolen Assyrian Christian ...