Iraq requires more than 100bn cubic metres of water to restore water resources to normal levels amid a sharp decline in the ...

As water scarcity intensifies in the Middle East, the longstanding dispute over the Euphrates-Tigris rivers between upstream ...

JUBAISH, Iraq — Throughout the marshes, the reed gatherers, standing on land they once floated over, cry out to visitors in a passing boat. “Maaku mai!” they shout, holding up their rusty sickles.

Baghdad, Iraq, June 6, 2016 — At least three children and an elderly man drowned in the Euphrates River over the weekend as they attempted to flee the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Since Friday, displaced ...

Mesopotamia is said to be where civilisation was born and the waters that nurtured its existence in ancient times were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. We add them to our ongoing series on rivers and ...

In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches — Asaad NIAZI Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed ...

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 ...

TOPSHOT - A convoy of US forces armoured vehicles drives near the village of Yalanli, on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij, on March 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN ...