Iraq intends to open a tourism town dedicated to one of Mesopotamia’s oldest civilisations, the Sumerians. Two years after it ...

The Arab Tourism Statistics Forum will be held in Baghdad from Sep 21-23, with 16 Arab nations and international ...

But the area around Saray Square also bears the scars of Iraq's more recent history, which has kept tourists away for years. Just down the road from the square is Muttannabi Street. In 2007, a car ...

TEHRAN—Kermanshah Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts Department has invited 13 Iraqi travel agencies to the western province in an effort to attract tourists from the neighboring country and ...

Now that bombings aren't a daily concern for the residents of Baghdad, planners are turning their attention to expanding the Iraqi capital city – and eventually introducing a booming tourism industry.

Pakistan and Iraq are ready to connect people, faith and trade with a new ferry service connecting Gwadar Port in Pakistan with Umm Qasr Port in Iraq. This Pakistan and Iraq initiative comes following ...

BAGHDAD -- Someone had fun tinkering with the airline board at the old, disused terminal at Baghdad International Airport. It advertises a "special flight" on Japan Airlines from Basra to Sydney, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Thailand, as a major South Asian tourist destination, is keen to broaden cooperation in the field with Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, its ambassador to Jordan and ...

Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone in West Africa do not come to mind when most Australians plan an overseas holiday. In fact, the Australian government strongly advises against traveling to the first ...

KERBALA/NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Tourism is booming in Iraq -- religious tourism, at least -- but Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites are struggling to cope with the influx. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims ...

BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) - Nayef Hajwal still dreams of the day when he will see tourists flowing through the ancient city of Babylon, as he did in the 1970s and '80s when he took pictures of thousands ...