Under its Southeast Anatolia Project, or GAP by its Turkish acronym, it has built at least 19 dams on the Euphrates and Tigris, and several more are envisaged for a total of 22.

Water agreements between Iraq and Turkey. Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As is known, the two rivers ...

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 ...

Former Egyptian minister of irrigation Mohamed Nasr Allam said in 2010 that Egypt will take all necessary measures to confirm to all international organizations that this agreement is “against ...

BAGHDAD, May 24 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Sudani announced, Saturday, the launch of a regional initiative aimed at protecting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from environmental ...

But The Wounded Tigris is no policy memo. In the end, it is a final plea to save this river and with it, future generations of Iraqis. The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of ...

DHI QAR, Iraq, April 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer severe droughts that endanger ...

Baghdad: Iraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks.

The meteorological drought that swept through the Fertile Crescent (stretching from the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile Valley) in the 2000s finally ended up undoing the Assad regime in Syria and ...