DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid at Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A ...

Mosul is one of the oldest cities in the world. (Universal Images Group North America LLC/DeAgostini/Alamy) (BBC) -- Reaching the source of the Tigris is not an easy task. Where a dirt road ends, a ...

Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman Naim Haddad plys the Shatt al-Arab near Basra - Copyright AFP Ayman HENNA Sun setting on the Tigris: Iraqi fisherman Naim ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani said Wednesday that the country is experiencing a significant improvement in water levels this year, with the ...

The Mosul Dam along the Tigris river, where the ancient city was discovered. Photo: ZAID AL-OBEIDI/AFP (Getty Images) An ongoing drought in Iraq revealed a sunken Bronze Age city. In an effort to stop ...

1 of 5 — Young members of the Baghdad Rowing Club practice on the river Tigris, close to the University of Mustansiriyah in the Iraqi capital 2 of 5 — The Tigris River snakes its way through Baghdad, ...

Water levels in Iraqi rivers recede as drought bites Baghdad fishermen see catches and earnings shrink Iraq is one of the most climate change-vulnerable nations BAGHDAD, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters ...

DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River.

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