Just 48 hours after being named deputy mayor of his town, a veteran councillor found himself in Syria as part of a friendship ...

With the signing of an agreement between Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander ...

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

Conflicts leave scars on people—and on communities’ economic and social fabrics. Previous armed conflicts across Iraq have ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

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 ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The Eridu region, near Basra in present-day Iraq, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates' course ... buried beneath newer canals or river sediments.

The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) is an extravagant waterbird adapted to forage in dry, open habitats, and is ...

Iraq’s Development Road aims to reduce dependence ... However, Turkey, the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is not a member of the Convention, so Baghdad and Ankara will have to find ...