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 — 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, Iraq – Fauzi Muhammad gleans the twigs and reeds from his nylon fishing net with fingers as thick as mooring rope. His black hair is flecked with silver, like moonlight on the water at night.

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – For 6,000 years, the river that flows through the heart of Baghdad nurtured the people who live along its banks – providing water, food, transport and recreation. But three years of ...

With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed cools off from Baghdad's brutal summer by swimming in the Tigris river, but as Iraqi rivers dry up, so does the age-old pastime. Near a bridge ...

2005-06-13 04:00:00 PDT On The Tigris River, Iraq-- From a 26-foot fiberglass boat zigzagging across the mighty Tigris River, Army Capt. James Lockridge watched Iraq unfold before him in all of its ...

It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its ...

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 ...

An Iraqi dives into the waters of the Tigris river in Baghdad on July 12, 2023, as temperatures soared past 45 degrees Celsius — Ahmad AL-RUBAYE With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed ...