BAGHDAD — Divers call it “the burial ground,” an impenetrably dark stretch of the Tigris River, about 20 feet deep, passing through the heart of Baghdad. Cruising the river on a recent day strapped ...

Baghdad Mayor Ammar Musa Kazim announced the completion of the Qadisiya Corniche fountain, the first to be built inside the ...

A rare geological formation resembling a miniature version of the Euphrates and Tigris river systems has emerged in the ...

Mosul is one of the oldest cities in the world. (Universal Images Group North America LLC/DeAgostini/Alamy) (BBC) -- Reaching the source of the Tigris is not an easy task. Where a dirt road ends, a ...

A 3,400 year-old city emerged from the Tigris River in Iraq due to a drought, revealing the hidden civilization. A team of archaeologists rushed to the Mosul reservoir, located in northern Iraq and ...

ISTANBUL, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Turkey has started filling a huge hydroelectric dam on the Tigris river, a lawmaker and activists said, despite protests that it will displace thousands of people and risks ...

BAGHDAD — The wooden boats are patched and painted on the shore, and Lufti Mahmoud, his hands as coarse as fishing nets, pushes his skiff into the Tigris and glides against the current, remembering ...

BAGHDAD – Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad has assured Iraqis his country won't cut off water supplies to the Tigris River, days after it started filling up a reservoir further upstream, causing water ...

(CNN) -- An overcrowded ferry capsized in the Tigris River near Mosul, killing at least 102 people during Nowruz and Mother's Day celebrations on Thursday, officials said. Among the victims were at ...

Iraqi special forces closed in on the Tigris river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday, advancing in parallel with other troops and forcing the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) to retreat ...

In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk. In a letters to her parents, Gertrude describes the beauty of the Tigris River at dusk during a hot summer’s ...