Tishreen Dam, on the Euphrates river, has become a flashpoint in the conflict between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ...

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 distance ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

If Ocalan's declaration does not by itself signal the conclusion of the PKK-Ankara war, what is it nevertheless likely to ...

I. B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Zabel Yesayan’s The Agony of a People: ...

Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call.

Expressing support for a sustainable peace process following Abdullah Ocalan’s call for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to disarm, a human rights researcher said that for sustainable peace, the ...

TURKEY’S foreign minister accused the Syrian government ... On Friday Isis cut off the main water supply from the Euphrates river to recently liberated Aleppo, home to two million people. On Tuesday ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led forces on Thursday captured an Islamic State (ISIS) leader in eastern Syria with the ...

Turkey and a coalition of Turkish-backed rebel ... the Turkish-backed SNA launched a new offensive to capture territory west of the River Euphrates from the SDF. Now battles have reached areas ...