Baghdad - Iraqi troops in Mosul have battled their way to the Tigris River running through the centre of town, marking a milestone in the nearly three-month-old offensive aimed at reclaiming the ...

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BAGHDAD (AP) — A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year sank in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing at least 71 people, mostly women and ...

Built on the right bank of the Tigris River, the ancient city of Mosul combines a traditional Islamic layout with elements from other cultures and religions. There is a significant concentration of ...

Overloaded ferry sinks in Tigris near Iraq’s Mosul, killing at least 83 The accident ... Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the ...

Follow Michael Palin as as he embarks on a 1000-mile odyssey, following the course of the great Tigris river from its source in eastern Turkey to the Persian Gulf. Most of his journey will be through ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

This is more evident than in the Tigris-Euphrates river system, where Turkey’s control over the headwaters has granted it unprecedented geopolitical influence over downstream nations ...

The Tigris and Euphrates, which begin their journey in eastern Turkey and flow through Syria into Iraq, have long been more ...

To cross the Tigris river from Iraqi Kurdistan into northeastern Syria is to journey between two different worlds. Over centuries, this has often been the way for this great river: the boundary ...