Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in ...

US President Donald Trump’s administration is mulling a new travel ban that would affect citizens from dozens of countries to ...

Tourism -- mostly the religious kind -- already makes a direct contribution of around 3% to Iraq's gross domestic product (GDP). But the Iraqi government says it wants to grow that to 10% by focusing ...

As with many other oil-producing nations in the region worried about the world moving away from fossil fuels, Iraq is keen to diversify national income and encourage more jobs in the private sector, ...

Tourism — mostly the religious kind — already makes a direct contribution of around 3% to Iraq's gross domestic product (GDP). But the Iraqi government says it wants to grow that to 10% by ...