Water cooperation is essential when countries share lakes and rivers – yet it’s been deteriorating in many places, with serious consequences
Conflict still occurs over shared waters; however, since the late 1800s, and particularly since the end of World War II, cooperation has been the dominant interaction between countries in the world’s ...
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Water cooperation is essential when countries share lakes and rivers – yet it’s been deteriorating in many places, with serious consequences
More than 4,000 years ago, two Sumerian city-states – Lagash and Umma – were engaged in a fierce war over a strip of fertile land and a canal fed by the Tigris River in what today would be ...
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With BP’s Megadeal Approved, Is the West Back in Iraq?
The BP deal signals a potential resurgence of Western influence in Iraq’s energy sector.
1,600-year-old tear bottle from Late Roman Period discovered in Turkey
Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...
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Soil Erosion in Al-Adhaim River Basin, Central Part of Iraq ()
Al-Ansari, N. , Sissakian, V. and Elias, Z. (2025) Soil Erosion in Al-Adhaim River Basin, Central Part of Iraq. Engineering, ...
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Al-Fatha Bridge Reconstruction
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al-Sudani has officially inaugurated the reconstructed Al-Fatha Bridge over the ...
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From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: The Middle East’s unresolved Water Disputes
Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As ...
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95% fish, 30% buffalos in Iraq’s marshes are lost: NGO
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are key water sources for Iraq. About 75 percent of Iraq’s water comes from neighboring Iran and Turkey, and 20 to 25 percent is from internal sources.