Iraq shifts to using desert well for agriculture Analysts warn move is not sustainable, will dry aquifers Climate change, upstream dams dry out rivers - officials Officials say 2023 wheat harvest ...

This leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a preferential ...

Most of Iraq, according to the CIA Factbook, consists of broad plains and reedy marshlands, and its climate is mostly desert with mild to cool winters and hot, dry, cloudless summers. At its ...

It’s not the Wild West anymore, but Marines are still prowling the desert stretches of sprawling Anbar province in search of oil smugglers, drug smugglers and insurgents.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government of ...

UNHCR's Iraq Support Unit coordinator Andrew Harper said that the security risks of operating in Iraq complicated getting aid to these people and has masked the scale of their hardship.

As he flew out of Iraq on Air Force One, I asked him whether Hemming’s words would affect his decision on troop levels. Unlike the Marine, the Commander in Chief did not stray from his script.

This leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a ...

BAGHDAD -- Sunni militants have blitzed through the vast desert of western Iraq, capturing four towns and three border crossings and deepening the predicament of the Shiite-led government in ...

This leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a ...