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River flows have fallen by 40% in the last four decades as the states along its length — Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq — pursue rapid, unilateral development of the water’s use.
A 13-year-old child from Syria drowned in the Euphrates River in the Birecik district of the southeastern Urfa province. A while after he entered the river to swim, the child was caught in the current ...
When a river shifts course through an avulsion, geologists refer to the now-dry, former location of the river as an “abandoned channel.” The people living near one of those dried-up riverbeds ...
BEIRUT — Syrian government forces on Sunday briefly captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after rare clashes with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led ...
U.S.-backed Syrian militias opposed to President Bashar al-Assad had set the Euphrates River as a red line, saying they would not allow government forces to cross onto the east bank.
Droughts in Turkey have revealed a long-lost castle. Hastek Castle was carved into the mountain along the Euphrates river. It became submerged in water in 1974 when a dam started to hold water.
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The Russian military has built a bridge across the Euphrates river near Deir al-Zor to move troops and vehicles to the other side to support a Syrian army offensive, Russian TV reported on Tuesday ...
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But in June, the irrigation pipes finally reached his farm in Mardin province. Next year, his entire 4,500 acres will be watered via the Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates River.