Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As ...

By examining different materials buried along with the watercraft, experts could determine the age of the boat.

Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and ...

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TASS/. Kurdish formations are ready to provide security for Russia’s task force on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the Warring Sides in ...

city-states near the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, battled with spears and chariots after Umma’s king drained an irrigation canal leading from the Tigris. “Enannatum ...

BEIRUT, November 9. /TASS/. An exchange of fire between Syrian troops and US forces based on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River has started to subside, the Al Mayadeen television said on ...

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 ...