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 ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...