The Tigris carried us on to Ashur, the first capital of the Assyrian empire, where a 4,000-year-old ziggurat looms over the river. In the desert beyond were Nimrud , a later Assyrian capital and ...

Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing. Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south ...

In Syria, the Tigris is an international border. It wasn't until Mosul, a city carved in two by the river, that we were finally able to travel more freely. When ISIS occupied Mosul from 2014-2017, it ...

Today, the river levels are dangerously low and the concern is that the river will dry up completely by 2040. The Euphrates River has been one of the most important rivers throughout human history.

Fort Drum Family & MWR Abandoned Vehicle and NAF Property Silent Auction will be held on May 8 to 10, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The auction will be held at the corner of Tigris River Valley Road and ...

The water conflict in the Euphrates–Tigris basin has been ongoing since the 1960s with Turkey, Syria and Iraq competitively constructing large-scale water-supply schemes.

World Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up. It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.

Water levels in the Gharraf River, the Tigris’ branch here, were so low it didn’t reach the diversion gates, designed in the 1970s when flows were twice as high.

The Tigris carried us on to Ashur, the first capital of the Assyrian empire, where a 4,000-year-old ziggurat looms over the river. In the desert beyond were Nimrud , a later Assyrian capital and ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.But today the Tigris is dying.Human activity and climate change have choked its ...