Historical clue formulations

• Modern home of ancient Mesopotamia — 2026-04-17
• Where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet — 2026-04-06
• Persian Gulf nation — 2026-01-25
• Modern country that includes most of ancient Mesopotamia — 2025-12-03
• Land on the Tigris and Euphrates — 2025-11-03
• Modern locale of ancient Babylon — 2025-09-14
• Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated — 2025-05-18
• Home to the Great Ziggurat of Ur — 2024-02-18
• Second-greatest oil producer in OPEC — 2023-07-04
• Where the Noah's Ark story is thought to have occurred, today — 2021-12-11
• Baghdad's land — 2021-08-16
• Baghdad's land — 2021-03-08
• Baghdad's land — 2020-12-21
• Modern-day home of where the biblical Abraham was born — 2019-11-02
• Baghdad's land — 2019-08-12
• Modern home of the ancient king Gilgamesh — 2019-08-01
• Neighbor of Turkey — 2019-07-25
• Modern locale of ancient Sumer — 2019-04-11
• Where the Tigris and Euphrates flow — 2019-03-19
• Where dinars buy dinners — 2018-04-07
• Where the Tigris and Euphrates meet — 2017-10-06
• Country invaded in 2003 — 2017-04-25
• Former Baath Party stronghold — 2015-10-31
• Country created by the Treaty of Sèvres, 1920 — 2015-06-20
• Neighbor of 10-Down — 2014-11-21
• Early 2000s war zone — 2014-08-27
• Setting for "Three Kings," 1999 — 2014-06-28
• Modern-day locale of ancient Nineveh — 2014-02-28
• "The Hurt Locker" setting — 2013-12-04
• "The Hurt Locker" setting — 2012-12-27
• One side in a 1980s war — 2012-07-24
• Saddam Hussein's land — 2012-07-02
• "Axis of evil" member — 2012-06-13
• "The Hurt Locker" locale — 2011-12-22
• 2000s service site — 2011-05-07
• Mesopotamia, today — 2011-03-02
• What some veterans recall — 2011-01-28
• Operation Desert Storm setting — 2011-01-24
• Neighbor of Kuwait — 2010-12-07
• "The Hurt Locker" setting — 2010-10-06
• Modern locale of ancient Ur — 2010-09-09
• Where many a veteran has served — 2010-07-21
• Baghdad's home — 2010-06-28
• Babylon's site, today — 2009-11-29
• Baath party place — 2009-11-20
• Modern home of ancient Ur — 2009-07-29
• With 33-Down, topic in the 2008 presidential campaign — 2009-07-14
• Modern home of the ancient Akkadian empire — 2009-02-26
• Mesopotamia, today — 2008-12-10
• 2008 campaign issue — 2008-09-09