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Islamic State (IS) militants attacked a village south of Mosul, killing several people including two journalists, even as ...
Islamic State (IS) militants holding out in Mosul on a strip of land along the Tigris River are increasingly using suicide ...
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday to increase water releases to Iraq. During their meeting in Turkey, where they discussed […] ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has ordered the monitoring of water flows from Turkey ...
A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
In Syria, the Tigris is an international border. It wasn't until Mosul, a city carved in two by the river, that we were finally able to travel more freely. When ISIS occupied Mosul from 2014-2017, it ...
In Syria, the Tigris is an international border. It wasn't until Mosul, a city carved in two by the river, that we were finally able to travel more freely.
Famed for its silks, Mosul was an economic hub of the ancient Silk Road, thanks in part to Yemeni artisans who settled there. Its bustling souks and soaring minarets, straddling the Tigris River ...
But for Ali al-Husseiny, a 32-year-old resident of Makkawi, an Old City neighbourhood along the Tigris, nothing can replace Mosul’s character. “Our souls are connected to this land.
People and relatives of victims waiting on the bank of the Tigris river where the ferry sank in Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 21, 2019. A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new ...