Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. Part of the 200 ...

Recently screened at the prestigious DOK Leipzig documentary film festival, El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia tells the story of the 28,000 displaced Dalmatians who set up camp for two years in the ...

Every day before the sun comes up, amateur fisherman Abu Zainab, 73, rides to the river on his bicycle, once a common means of transportation in Iraq's southern city of Basra. With his fishing line, ...

BASRA, Iraq — It’s been decades since the Shatt Al Arab Hotel was considered a riverside playground for Gulf Region pleasure-seekers, and just as long since its high-rolling clientele were greeted at ...

Iraq has just two ports, Umm Qasr and Az Zubayr, in the south near Basra. Combined they generate 97% of the nation's revenue. Both are connected to the Persian Gulf by the polluted Shatt Al Arab ...

01 March 2014 BAGHDAD: The long-disputed Thalweg river line between Iraq and Iran returned to life by a new later-to-be-signed agreement between the two sides. In a statement by Iraqi foreign ministry ...

The territorial waters of the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iraq and Iran have been central to the dispute between Tehran and London over 15 Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

SIBA, Iraq — The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly ...

Shatt Al-Arab University College is a private university located in the city of Basra, Iraq. The university was established in 1993. The university offers a wide range of educational programmes across ...

After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28,000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in ...

Longtime Glen Burnie columnist Kathleen “Kathy” Anne Shatt cared about her family and community, and that’s how her brother Steve Thomas plans to remember her. Shatt, 60, died Monday at Hospice of the ...

This is El Shatt – a refugee camp in Egypt that housed European asylum seekers during World War II. An incredible series of images has given us a glimpse into daily life at the camp. The camp was in ...