Authorities have suspended water distribution in the district of Koya east of Erbil, after the detection of crude oil contamination in the Lesser Zab River, affecting over 100,000 people, local ...

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use to look back in time. And what ...

Analysis - Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably ...

The Pentagon's auditorium brimmed with emotion today as military leaders, veterans and families gathered to honor retired ...

The BP deal signals a potential resurgence of Western influence in Iraq’s energy sector.

Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around has been an important centre since ...

Al-Ansari, N. , Sissakian, V. and Elias, Z. (2025) Soil Erosion in Al-Adhaim River Basin, Central Part of Iraq. Engineering, ...

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

Iraqi author Enaam Kachachi’s latest novel, A Swiss Summer, explores an experimental drug to rid people of their ...

Iraqi populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr has sparked controversy for alleging that the holy Quran was altered following the Prophet Mohammed’s death. In his series, Lectures on Quran ...