A new church complex has been built near the ancient city of Ur, in Iraq, in an effort to draw attention to the long history of the country's beleaguered Christian community. The building of the ...

US architects are working to resurrect the world’s oldest justice court in Iraq as part of a larger project involving the reconstruction of a Sumerian city dating back more than 4,000 years. Iraq ...

Aknaf Al Sawary Travel Agency works with other international agencies to provide tourists with full-service tours of this underexplored and ...

PLAINS OF UR, Iraq (AP) – Pope Francis and Iraq's top Shiite cleric delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence Saturday, urging Muslims in the war-weary Arab nation to embrace Iraq’s ...

UR/BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) -Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at risk of disappearing as Iraq's ancient ...

(RNS) — Earlier on Saturday, Pope Francis had a historic meeting with the Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the Iraqi Shiite leader. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Speaking on Saturday (March 6) before the ...

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UR, Iraq, March 6 (Reuters) - Pope Francis walked down a narrow alleyway in the holy city of Najav to hold a historic meeting with Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric and visited the birthplace of the Prophet ...

Follow our latest coverage of the Pope Francis trip to Iraq. On his second day of a three-day trip, Francis met Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a spiritual authority for many Shiite Muslims. He also ...