Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...

But Iraq’s two great rivers have also been hit hard, and the consequences are likely to last well beyond the group’s eventual demise. Already beset by an array of problems, the Euphrates and Tigris ...

"Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq.

What it is: A clay tablet inscribed with the oldest known map of the ancient world Where it is from: Abu Habba (Sippar), an ancient Babylonian city in what is now Iraq When it was made: Approximately ...

Summer in Iraq brings unbearable heat, increased need for water, and death and illness suffered by people depending on contaminated water in a country blessed with rivers but unable to properly ...

Amin Salah used to grow wheat near the banks of Iraq's Euphrates River, but persistent droughts have led him to switch to farming unlikely new grounds deep in the harsh desert of Najaf.

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 ...

Stricken by drought and depleted by upstream dams, Iraq's once mighty rivers the Tigris and Euphrates are suffocating under pollutants from sewage to medical waste.In a country where half the ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history.

HALABJA, Iraq (Reuters) - "Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq. For the environmental activist, the reason ...