The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

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

Operation near Rawa, located on the Euphrates River's north bank, was part of larger campaign to defeat Daesh, says US ...

The big question is what comes next in Syria and how the government of Shara’a is able to navigate the differing agendas in ...

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(SDF on X) The Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates River in Syria has become a key point of conflict in the country’s post-Assad era. Since the fall of dictator Bashar al Assad’s regime on December 8, the ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

Syrian Oil Minister Ghiath Diab inaugurated the "Tiyas 5" gas well in the Homs countryside in central Syria on Thursday. The well has a production capacity of 130,000 cubic meters per day, according ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...