Riding the Tigris is like sliding across the backbone of Baghdad. From his seat in the bow, Mahmoud watches seagulls streak a blue sky. Coils of smoke rise here and there over the ruins of Saddam ...

BAGHDAD — Divers call it “the burial ground,” an impenetrably dark stretch of the Tigris River, about 20 feet deep, passing through the heart of Baghdad. Cruising the river on a recent day ...

BAGHDAD, Oct. 7, 2006 — -- A system of iron weirs in the Tigris River 20 miles southeast of Baghdad was designed to prevent lily pads, known here as "Nile flower," from traveling down-river ...

His eyes are brown, like the muddy eddies of his beloved Tigris River. Every day at 5 a.m. he walks from his ramshackle house near central Baghdad and climbs down a concrete embankment to the ...

At least 70 percent of Iraq’s water comes from rivers and marshes shared with its neighbours, especially the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers – both of which run through Turkey.

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 ...

The Tigris carried us on to Ashur, the first capital of the Assyrian empire, where a 4,000-year-old ziggurat looms over the river. In the desert beyond were Nimrud , a later Assyrian capital and ...

But The Wounded Tigris is no policy memo. In the end, it is a final plea to save this river and with it, future generations of Iraqis. The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of ...

Iraqi forces backed by tribal militias during battle to retake a village from the Islamic State on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, Iraq December 7. Iraqi forces backed by tribal militias ...