Port to be finished this year Phase 1 will consist of five piers Plan for 99m tonnes a year Iraq’s long-delayed redevelopment and construction of its Faw port near the Arabian Gulf will be ...

The looming water crisis is not merely an environmental concern but a defining economic and political challenge that has already begun reshaping global power dynamics. As major economies struggle to ...

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Tony Okocha, has called on the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara to resign or face impeachment. Okocha made the call while describing ...

The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

What is less clear is how to attain it. For many years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan thought that making Turkey self-reliant meant going it alone. While pursuing what Turkish officials ...

"The whole world is surprised how such a large number of crores of people gathered on a river bank at the Triveni Sangam. These crores of people had neither received a formal invitation nor any ...

a name that translates as ‘between the rivers’ – in other words the ‘Fertile Crescent’ that spreads out from the Tigris and the Euphrates. On a modern map this would be Iraq, Syria and the Levant, ...

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.

But Bashar al-Assad's regime never recognised it and, despite his fall from power, its future remains uncertain. As well as more than a decade of civil war, the Syrian Kurds have faced years of ...