Syria’s military said it would open a corridor Thursday for civilians to evacuate an area of Aleppo province that has seen a ...

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces exchanged fire Tuesday in a tense area of eastern Aleppo province, marking a possible escalation after ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

SHANGHAI, Dec. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric has broken ground on the Euphrates Combined Cycle Expansion Project in Iraq. As the project's contractor, Shanghai Electric is upgrading power ...

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Iraq's wheat production faces severe challenges as water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers plummet. The country's efforts to achieve wheat self-sufficiency may succumb to the worst drought in ...

NAJAF, Iraq, Dec 16 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

Iraq, a country heavily impacted by climate change, has been ravaged for years by drought and low rainfall. Declining freshwater flows have raised salt and pollution levels, particularly further south ...