Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As is known, the two rivers originate in Turkey and flow for a long ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...

This grave site on the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates has perplexed scientists as it challenges the conventional understanding of the formation of the first states by humans.

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces. Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country in the world to climate change. In 2021, almost 40 percent of wheat farmers in ...

The irrigation of Harran is considered one of the project’s successes, but people in Syria and Iraq complain that Turkey’s dams threaten water flows from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers ...