Sudden wealth has been thrust upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire’s holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates—the land once known as ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing from southern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, met at the Shatt al-Arab River near Basra, creating vast marshlands in Iraq and Iran. Seasonal flooding ...

Ministry spokesperson Khaled Shamal highlighted the significance of established frameworks governing Euphrates River water ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

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The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Gara region of N.Iraq, with 13 others in Euphrates Shield and Peace Spring operation zones in northern Syria, says Turkish National Defense Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı ...