beliefs to the far corners of the world. We travelled by small boat whenever possible, though access to the Tigris is often tricky. In Turkey, navigating the river is difficult because of a series of ...

Vessels with passengers venture out as security situation improves in Baghdad Baghdad: The passenger boats that have returned to Iraq's Tigris River after years of war are shabby and the water ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself, but today the Tigris is dying ... According to the World Bank’s report ...

BAGHDAD – Iraq's Minister of Water Resources says Turkey has postponed filling an upstream reservoir on the Tigris River to July 1 ... across the U.S. and the world." ...

Reporting from Cairo — Iraqi forces this week reached a bridge over the Tigris River that bisects the city of Mosul, gaining a strategic advantage over Islamic State militants whom commanders ...

Every Sunday, the bathers make their way to the bridge that crosses the Tigris in Al-Qadisiyah quarter ... it is from this conflict that the world came. “Ahead of any important moment in our ...

a World Heritage Site Listed on the World Heritage List in 2003 according to the criteria iii and iv. The city of ancient Ashur is located on the banks of the Tigris River north of Mesopotamia in a ...

This once-mighty river is where humans first developed agriculture, writing and the wheel. But now the lifeblood of the ancient world is under threat. Reaching the source of the Tigris is not an ...