Iraq began its first national census in nearly four decades on Wednesday, a landmark step towards collecting critical data on ...

Iraq is conducting its first census in 27 years. It hasn't happened more recently because undertaking such a head count could ...

View Full Image Map: The Economist Given his ... and be given housing subsidies on arrival. Iraq’s well-armed Shia militias, ...

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning ...

Akin to Lebanon, top government posts in Iraq are reserved for different communities in an attempt to decentralise power. The Prime Minister’s post is reserved for a Shia, the President for the ...

“The Iranian period is finished, I think,” Rifi told me. “In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.” ...

Later in the day, air-raid sirens were sounded in Eilat, and an Israel Navy vessel intercepted a drone from the east.In ...

Syria, Jordan, and Iraq allied themselves with Egypt ... and physically removed from the center of power in Beirut. The southern Shia population had no protection from repeated Israeli invasions ...

Bahrain has 18,400 active-duty personnel out of a total population of 1.6 million. Bahrain is one of the lesser-known countries in the Middle East, many people can’t find it on a map.

An amendment to Iraq's 1959 Personal Status law could theoretically ... In many countries, the legal age of consent ranges from 11 to 21. The map categorizes countries by their specific age ...

Bahrain has 18,400 active-duty personnel, and a total population of 1.6 million. Bahrain is one of the lesser-known countries in the Middle East, many people can’t find it on a map. It has a ...