In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern province of Dhi Qar, an AFP photographer saw the river bed of the mighty Euphrates dry in patches — Asaad NIAZI Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed ...

Iraq and Turkey on Sunday signed an executive mechanism in Baghdad to implement a bilateral water-cooperation agreement, advancing a 10-year plan to manage the Tigris and Euphrates river systems and ...

DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey (AP) — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River.

The future stability of the young and relatively weak Iraqi government rests on its ability to provide basic public goods--water, food, and electricity--to its populace, which is related directly to ...

Iraq's Euphrates river is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity in living memory. Its 46 million people face rising temperatures, chronic ...

Iraqi farmer Umm Ali has watched her poultry die as salinity levels in the country's south hit record highs, rendering already scarce water unfit for human consumption and killing livestock. "We used ...

BAGHDAD -- The Euphrates River is still dangerously low for Iraqis as summertime approaches despite Turkey's recent opening of dams to allow more water to flow to its neighbor, RFE/RL's Radio Free ...

DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid at Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A ...