The recent pattern of attacks on Iraqi oil infrastructure should be understood not as random sabotage, but as deliberate coercive signaling against the sector most central to Iraq’s revenues, investor confidence, and…
The indigenous inhabitants of the Mesopotamian marshlands In the southern reaches of Mesopotamia, where the twin arteries of the Tigris and Euphrates loosen into a labyrinth of reed and water, the Marsh…
Between the Tigris and Euphrates, the cradle of Mesopotamia gave rise to the first cities, the earliest laws, and the written word. Yet beyond its antiquity, Iraq lives most vividly through its people.