The rivers of Iraq, above all the Tigris and Euphrates, are drying up. The country is becoming more arid, and desertification is eating into the limited amount of agricultural land.

The Tigris-Euphrates river basin, which feeds Syria and Iraq, is rapidly drying up. This vast area already struggles to support at least ten million conflict-displaced people. And things could soon ...

Iraq is grappling with one of the worst droughts in its history. Water levels in Turkish dams feeding Iraq’s rivers remain ...

Item 1 of 3 Nabil Musa, an Iraqi Kurdish environmental activist, takes pictures of Sirwan River on the outskirt of Halabja, Iraq June 13, 2021. Picture taken June 13, 2021.

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On a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch: tiny fish gathered dead from the water, fit only for use as animal fodder.

Iraq's Tigris River Yields Hundreds of Corpses. By ABC News. October 7, 2006, 1:14 PM. BAGHDAD, Oct. 7, 2006 — -- A system of iron weirs in the Tigris River 20 miles southeast of Baghdad was ...

Across Iraq, rivers and lakes are drying up, and the country’s water reserves have already been halved. The livelihoods of local fishermen have collapsed entirely.

Iraq is seeking urgent international assistance to prevent its Tigris and Euphrates rivers from shriveling as a result of climate change, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said at an event in ...

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The name “Iraq” has ancient origins, probably from the Sumerian city of Uruk, birthplace of writing and seat of Gilgamesh. The Greeks called it Mesopotamia, the land “between the rivers ...

What war divided, rivers unite as Iraqis and Iraq vets share writing on friendship, plus other events this week. This weekend, Iraqis and veterans of the Iraq War will share their writing about rivers ...