Since Oct. 16, when Iraqi forces launched a large-scale ... “When I arrived in Qayyarah [a city on the west bank of the Tigris, 20 miles south of Mosul], as sandstorms and smoke covered the ...

The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of ... Citadel with respect to the city of Nimrud. The western corner of the city with the new ...

Three years later, a US-backed coalition in alliance with the Iraqi army and state-linked militias ... Eighty per cent of the Old City of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris, was destroyed during IS ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing from southern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, met at the Shatt al ... the largest city in the world in 3000 BCE, were located along the Euphrates River ...

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For the Tigris, Saddam’s engineers built ... blame for much of Iraq’s instability as a whole. Iraq’s most economically vital port city, Basra, is downstream from the marshes and their ...

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The US-led coalition said Iraqi forces had advanced in three ... troops were less than 3km (2 miles) from the River Tigris, which divides the city. On Monday, the last functioning bridge over ...

Unesco's director-general Audrey Azoulay and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed ... Eighty per cent of the Old City of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris, was destroyed during IS's three-year ...