| 2026-04-17 | Modern home of ancient Mesopotamia |
| 2026-04-06 | Where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet |
| 2026-01-25 | Persian Gulf nation |
| 2025-12-03 | Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia |
| 2025-11-03 | Land on the Tigris and Euphrates |
| 2025-09-14 | Modern locale of ancient Babylon |
| 2025-05-18 | Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated |
| 2024-03-17 | Where dinars are spent |
| 2024-02-18 | Home to the Great Ziggurat of Ur |
| 2023-07-04 | Second-greatest oil producer in OPEC |
| 2022-09-29 | Setting for Operation Red Dawn |
| 2021-12-11 | Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today |
| 2021-08-16 | Baghdad's land |
| 2021-03-08 | Baghdad's land |
| 2020-12-21 | Baghdad's land |
| 2019-11-02 | Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born |
| 2019-08-12 | Baghdad's land |
| 2019-08-01 | Modern home of the ancient king Gilgamesh |
| 2019-07-25 | Neighbor of Turkey |
| 2019-04-11 | Modern locale of ancient Sumer |
| 2019-03-19 | Where the Tigris and Euphrates flow |
| 2018-04-07 | Where dinars buy dinners |
| 2017-10-06 | Where the Tigris and Euphrates meet |
| 2017-04-25 | Country invaded in 2003 |
| 2015-10-31 | Former Baath Party stronghold |
| 2015-06-25 | One of the I's of ISIS |
| 2015-06-20 | Country created by the Treaty of Sèvres, 1920 |
| 2014-11-21 | Neighbor of 10-Down |
| 2014-08-27 | Early 2000s war zone |
| 2014-06-28 | Setting for "Three Kings," 1999 |
| 2014-02-28 | Modern-day locale of ancient Nineveh |
| 2013-12-04 | "The Hurt Locker" setting |
| 2012-12-27 | "The Hurt Locker" setting |
| 2012-11-08 | 2000s service site |
| 2012-07-24 | One side in a 1980s war |
| 2012-07-02 | Saddam Hussein's land |
| 2012-06-13 | "Axis of evil" member |
| 2011-12-22 | "The Hurt Locker" locale |
| 2011-05-07 | 2000s service site |
| 2011-03-02 | Mesopotamia, today |
| 2011-01-28 | What some veterans recall |
| 2011-01-24 | Operation Desert Storm setting |
| 2010-12-07 | Neighbor of Kuwait |
| 2010-10-06 | "The Hurt Locker" setting |
| 2010-09-09 | Modern locale of ancient Ur |
| 2010-07-21 | Where many a veteran has served |
| 2010-06-28 | Baghdad's home |
| 2009-11-29 | Babylon's site, today |
| 2009-11-20 | Baath party place |
| 2009-07-29 | Modern home of ancient Ur |
| 2009-07-14 | With 33-Down, topic in the 2008 presidential campaign |
| 2009-02-26 | Modern home of the ancient Akkadian empire |
| 2008-12-10 | Mesopotamia, today |
| 2008-09-09 | 2008 campaign issue |
| 2008-08-23 | Script meaning "God is great" appears on its flag |
| 2007-06-26 | It includes Mesopotamia |
| 2007-06-20 | Where Mosul is |
| 2006-08-28 | Where the Euphrates flows |
| 2006-01-05 | Country whose flag says "God is great" |
| 2005-01-31 | Former Baathist state |
| 2003-11-24 | Baghdad's land |
| 2003-10-28 | 2003 war zone |
| 2003-03-01 | Where Mosul is |
| 2002-06-13 | Home of some Kurds |
| 2001-09-19 | Country under longtime U.N. sanctions |
| 2001-05-24 | Operation Desert Storm target |
| 2000-09-07 | Modern site of ancient Nineveh |
| 2000-07-23 | Sumer, nowadays |
| 2000-05-11 | Subject of U.N. sanctions |
| 1999-12-31 | Faisal I's land |
| 1999-07-06 | Land of the Tigris and Euphrates |
| 1999-05-21 | Amara's nation |
| 1998-12-09 | Mideast hot spot |
| 1998-10-16 | Kirkuk's country |
| 1998-08-25 | Gulf war foe |
| 1998-03-01 | Babylon's land |
| 1996-12-16 | Mideast hot spot |
| 1996-10-18 | Foe of 31-Across |
| 1996-10-16 | Desert Storm target |
| 1996-04-04 | Where dinars buy dinner |
| 1996-04-03 | Invader of 1990 |
| 1996-01-14 | Turkey neighbor |
| 1995-12-12 | Gulf war foe |
| 1995-10-04 | Jordan neighbor |
| 1995-05-15 | Baghdad's land |
| 1994-06-16 | Modern site of ancient Kish |
| 1994-02-01 | Ur locale |