BORDERING a water-crisis riddled Iran, Iraq is enduring the worst drought of its recent history as 2025 has been registered as the driest year since 1933. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, known as ...

Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo ...

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A ‘humanitarian zone’ is expected to remain open on Thursday, allowing residents to leave Deir Hafer and Maskana.

IRAQI wheat farmer Ma’an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. But this year, those waters, which made the Fertile Crescent a cradle of ...

Iraq starts 2026 with a difficult combination of political upheaval, ambitious development goals, and ongoing security, ...

President Ahmed al-Sharaa repeated calls on Wednesday for Syria's Kurds to integrate into the state, as the army deployed ...

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have exchanged fire in eastern Aleppo province ...

Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream dams, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Heavy rainfall in recent weeks has led to a notable rise in water levels in Iraq’s southern marshlands, offering renewed hope to farmers and livestock owners in Dhi Qar ...

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The Syrian army has declared an area east of Aleppo a "closed military zone," signaling potential escalation with the Kurdish ...