Iraq’s Mosul Dam, built on water-soluble gypsum, requires constant grouting to prevent structural failure—a process often ...

While wars dominate headlines elsewhere in the region, Iraqis are battling a quieter but equally destabilising crisis. Climate change is drying rivers, upstream neighbours are cutting water flows, and ...

On April 29 1916 Britain suffered ‘its worst defeat in World War One’ – not on the Western Front but outside a dusty, fly-blown town in ...