Halfeti, in southeastern Turkey, was one of several towns and villages to be intentionally flooded when the Birecik Dam was ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A sudden, unexplained release of water from Iran’s western Sardasht Dam has flooded the Little Zab ...

One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals aims to secure clean water and good sanitation for all by 2030, in recognition of ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in an Egyptian tomb site dating to between 4,495 and 4,880 years ago.

The Tigris and Euphrates have faced significant supply reductions due to climate change effects and reduced releases from upstream countries, Iran and Syria. (end) ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A large number of volunteers comprising locals, civil organizations, government officials, and diplomatic mission representatives came together over the weekend to clear the Tigris ...

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 ...

With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed cools off from Baghdad's brutal summer by swimming in the Tigris river, but as Iraqi rivers dry up, so does the age-old pastime.

Iraq’s ancient Mesopotamian marshlands are in danger of drying due to a sharp fall in water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers during the country’s worst heatwave in four decades, the ...

Iraq is seeking urgent international assistance to prevent its Tigris and Euphrates rivers from shriveling as a result of climate change, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said at an event in ...

NASIRIYAH — Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said on Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water ...