In this Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 photo, pictures of militiamen who died fighting the Islamic State group over the past four years and weapons are on display in the Popular Mobilization Forces War Museum ...

BAGHDAD – Iraq’s restored National Museum reopened Monday with a red-carpet gala in the heart of Baghdad nearly six years after looters carried away priceless antiquities as American troops largely ...

The director of the Baghdad Museum, Donny George, left his job earlier this month and fled the country last Sunday. He complained of interference by Shiite Muslim extremists with connections in the ...

BAGHDAD -- The empty galleries are covered with dust. Broken statues are still lying on the floor and damaged showcases still bear witness to the vandalism that took place here. In fact, if it weren't ...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 (UPI) --Iraq's national museum in Baghdad, notoriously looted following the U.S. invasion in 2003, officially reopened for business Saturday following the release of a video depicting ...

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In the shadowy halls of the Iraqi National Museum, the remnants of Babylon seem largely forgotten. The carved stone forms of 2,000-year-old rulers are scattered haphazardly throughout a maze of ...

It contained what some call the DNA of Western Civilization, not to mention the antiquities that define national unity for the diverse people of modern Iraq. Since the 1940-s, every artifact from ...

ROME — After helping to fund the reopening of Iraq’s National Museum, Italy is planning a virtual exhibition of Mesopotamian and Islamic treasures, many of which are still missing from the looted ...

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BAGHDAD (AP) — A few steps from Baghdad’s cultural heart and its famous book market on al-Mutanabi Street lies the Iraqi capital’s latest tourist attraction: a war museum glorifying the sacrifices of ...