Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia Project to generate electricity ...

Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have used nearly two weeks of no bombardment on the crucial Tishreen Dam to repair ...

The transitional Syrian government and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have come to an agreement regarding the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States plans to relocate its troops in Syria to two new military bases, one near ...

It is here that the Euphrates River divides into the Al Hammar Marsh ... In all, more than 100 dams and embankments were destroyed in those first exhilarating days when everything seemed possible.

The Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have struck a deal with the central government on running a key dam they ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... of the Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. All of these measures ...

According to the agreement, all SDF-controlled entities - including border crossings, airports and oil and gas fields - will be integrated into state institutions. After Assad was toppled, the SDF ...

The Tishrin dam near Manbij in Aleppo province is one of several on the Euphrates and its tributaries in Syria that play a key role in the nation's economy by providing it with water for irrigation ...