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It indicates a decline in press freedom," which he said was one of the few gains after 2003, when a US-led coalition invaded Iraq. “Ironically, a US-funded channel is shut down by a government brought ...
News Iraq » Babylon: Ambitious Plans after Babylon listed by UNESCO
After 36 years oflobbying by Iraq , the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was designated in Julya UNESCO World Heritage Site. But this may mean even harder work for Baghdad and the local ...
News Iraq » Babylon: What the Restoration of Iraq’s Oldest University Says About the Nation’s Future
While dispiriting, it would be far from the first time Iraq’s heritage has become snared in political machinations—Saddam Hussein infamously reconstructed part of Babylon, some of which dates back to ...
News Iraq » Babylon: How an Ex-CIA Officer Became the World’s Hottest Comic Book Writer
In Vertigo’s The Sheriff of Babylon, a globe-sprawling series set in post-invasion Iraq, he vented a war’s worth of frustration at the “bullshitting” he witnessed from the inside out. In Marvel’s The ...
News Iraq » Babylon: The Ancient Kingdom of Babylon Is Coming to Chippendale This Weekend
The ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Babylon (modern-day Iraq) may have fallen into decline more than 2500 years ago, but this Saturday its bacchanalian spirit will take over Chippendale’s Kensington ...
News Iraq » Babylon: Coexistence converges at film festival in Iraqi Kurdistan
DIFF will also feature films that promote harmony within Iraq. In "Son of Babylon" a boy and his grandmother travel through the country to search for answers about his father who went missing during ...
News Iraq » Babylon: British museum returns Babylon treasure looted from Iraq after US invasion
The British Museum has completed its biggest ever handover of historical artefacts looted in Iraq (Picture: PA) The British Museum is returning a huge haul of Babylon treasure to Iraq after it was ...
News Iraq » Babylon: As it is today: Discovering the Fertile Crescent in Iraq
The plan was for a two-week trip, commissioned by donors, when I landed in northern Iraq one day in June. Foremost on my mind was finding Christians, specifically evangelicals, who remained in spite ...
News Iraq » Babylon: Iraqi court sentences 11 ISIS members to death for terrorist acts in Babil
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s Babil Criminal Court on Wednesday announced ... membership to the jihadist group and participating in a terrorist act in Babil (Babylon) Province, the Court’s press ...
News Iraq » Babylon: Babylon, world wonder and jewel of Iraq's national narrative
Hilla (Iraq) (AFP) - Babylon was once hanging gardens and opulent temples before parts were excavated and smuggled to Europe. A bastion for Saddam Hussein, then the forces overthrowing him. A centre ...
News Iraq » Babylon: Iraq celebrates naming Babylon a UNESCO World Heritage site
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq on Friday celebrated the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's decision to name the historic city of Babylon a World Heritage Site in a vote held in Azerbaijan's capital, years after ...
