DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River.

A 3,400 year-old city emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to a drought, revealing the hidden civilization. A team of archaeologists rushed to the Mosul reservoir, located in northern Iraq and ...

Baghdad Mayor Ammar Musa Kazim announced the completion of the Qadisiya Corniche fountain, the first to be built inside the ...

The historic “land between two rivers” faces a crisis as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, helping create the country’s worst ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, known as cradles of the Mesopotamian civilisation, are yearning for water. Flows have ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s agriculture ministry announced on Wednesday that Turkey is releasing only 100 cubic meters ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – For 6,000 years, the river that flows through the heart of Baghdad nurtured the people who live along its banks – providing water, food, transport and recreation. But three years of ...

Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman Naim Haddad plys the Shatt al-Arab near Basra - Copyright AFP Ayman HENNA Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman Naim ...

DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid at Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman ...