Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops ...

He is my dearest friend.' The leader of an Iran-backed US embassy siege in Baghdad was welcomed to the White House by Barack Obama eight years ago before becoming Tehran's 'point man' in Iraq.

NEW YORK -- The 1967 cinematic masterpiece the "Battle of Algiers," directed by Italian moviemaker Gillo Potecorvo, skillfully recreates Algeria's war of independence led by the National Liberation ...

NATO data-sharing gives EU glimmer of hope in defence readiness quest ...

Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years after the fall of Saddam Hussein or at the height of the battle to pu ...

When it does, mother and daughter plunge into a hidden crypt, which turns out to be the legendary House of Wisdom, buried after the siege of Baghdad 900 years ago. So far so thrilling, even if ...