city-states near the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, battled with spears and chariots after Umma’s king drained an irrigation canal leading from the Tigris. “Enannatum ...

As the world undergoes rapid political and economic transformations with escalating conflicts shaking the Middle East, the ...

But Saddam's depredations, combined with ongoing dam projects in Turkey, Syria and northern ... His 100-mile-long canal, called the Mother of All Battles River, cut off the Euphrates and deprived ...

THE MIDDLE EAST has three great rivers which bring large amounts of water from one country into another. The Tigris and Euphrates originate in Turkey, from where they flow through Syria and Iraq ...

"An agreement has been reached between the autonomous administration and the Syrian government for the management of the Tishrin Dam" on the Euphrates River, the source told AFP. Under the ...

The Kurdish-controlled territories in northeast Syria (Rojava) run along the Euphrates River, with the southeastern part under the control of the new Syrian administration headed by President ...

The transition of control began Friday, with the departure of the first convoy of fighters heading east of the Euphrates River under supervision from the Syrian Ministry of Defense. “The ...

Visitors view Iraqi traditional waterwheels made from tree branches on the banks of the Euphrates River in Anbar Province, Iraq, April 21, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua) Visitors view Iraqi traditional ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...

SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... Aleppo and form a corridor to the city from the Euphrates River. The SDF later tactically withdrew from many ...