Makhmur District, Iraq The Qara Chokh mountain range in northern Iraq is remote, parched and inhospitable. That’s what makes it attractive to the core of Islamic State, which has survived the ...

Life here can end in any number of ways. The Kurdish peshmerga -- “those who face death” -- own this northern Iraq mountain range during the day. Their grasp is more tenuous at night.

In the mountains of eastern Iraq, a hunter stumbled upon a black-tongued predator. Instead of killing the dangerous animal, the hunter captured it to show to scientists - and for good reason.

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking the ...

A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Understanding why could help predict future earthquakes.

More than 200 soldiers with the 10th Mountain Division collectively climbed the Adirondack Mountain Range’s highest 46 peaks in a single day. The soldiers braved cold and wet weather to climb ...

More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...

Two Georgia-based soldiers were killed from a weather-related incident while training on a mountain range north of Atlanta.

A hunter in the mountain of Iraq caught a black-tongued predator. Scientists identified it as a first-of-its-kind record, a study said. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto In the mountains of eastern ...

Abandoned sandals and upturned chairs attest to the panic that gripped this peaceful rest spot in Iraq's Kurdish mountains when deadly shelling from the nearby Turkish border slammed into it this ...

Thousands of displaced Iraqis who had been besieged on a mountain by jihadists have escaped to safety while Western powers ramped up efforts to save those still stranded.