The West Asia and North Africa region is facing a water scarcity crisis. About 60 percent of the region’s population lives in areas of severe water stress. According to recent reports, the ...

GRANGE: There is a good chance [the Iraqi leaders] are in a bunker. Keep in mind not all these bunkers are directly beneath a palace, mosque or hospital. They may go down 100 feet and go a block or ...

The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...

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The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River. The Ilısu Dam will cause the river to rise some 200 feet, submerging this modern café, the ruins of the 900-year-old bridge ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Preparation has begun to build the al-Jazeera (Island) Irrigation Project in Shingal (Sinjar) that ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq on water stated on Thursday that Iraq is among the top 15 most impacted countries ...