BAGHDAD (AP) — The videos of Islamic State militants destroying ancient artifacts in Iraq’s museums and blowing up 3,000-year-old temples are chilling enough, but one of Iraq’s top antiquities ...
We’ve all heard the stories about the massive waste and fraud that has taken place in Iraq. There have been so many anecdotes about how money just flew out of the U.S. Treasury to all sorts of shady ...
Introduction / William R. Polk -- The illicit trade in looted antiquities / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Smuggling and looting in Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq ...
Established in 1952 and designed by modernist architect Mohamed Makiya, the Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) is the second largest in Iraq and home to vast collections of prehistoric, Assyrian, Hatran, and ...
Doctors in Iraq fear that hundreds of Iraqis may be suffering from radiation poisoning following the widespread looting of the country’s nuclear facilities, this according to the London Telegraph.
The case of Iraq and the context of looting. Preserving Iraq's heritage from looting : what went wrong (within the United States) / Lawrence Rothfield -- Preparations at the Iraq Museum in the lead-up ...
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Friday characterized widespread looting in Iraq as a period of "untidiness" and suggested it was only a transitional phase on the way to freedom from Saddam ...
On March 20, 2003, a U.S.-led coalition began its invasion of Iraq. Approximately one month later, on April 10, 2003, U.S. soldiers were on standby while looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq ...
More than two dozen FBI agents in Iraq will help conduct criminal investigations into widespread looting at the National Museum of Antiquities and other cultural sites, U.S. law enforcement officials ...