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 ...

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 ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...

Archaeologists have confirmed the rediscovery of Alexandria on the Tigris, the long-lost city founded by Alexander the Great in 324 BC in southern Iraq near the Persian Gulf. They say the settlement ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Dams along Iraq’s primary river for drinking water and agriculture and power for millions are nearing their full capacity, Baghdad’s water resources minister said Monday, as ...

A worsening water crisis in the Middle East is reviving ancient biblical prophecies as the once-mighty Euphrates River ...

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 ...