The transitional Syrian government and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have come to an agreement regarding the ...

After the overthrow of Saddam in April 2003, local people began breaching the dikes and dams ... "there is no formal agreement about the allocation and use of the Tigris and Euphrates." Iraq ...

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Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have used nearly two weeks of no bombardment on the crucial Tishreen Dam to repair ...

The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River ... but people in Syria and Iraq complain that Turkey’s dams threaten water flows from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers ...

The SDF captured the Tishrin Dam, one of several along the Euphrates river, from the Islamic State ... overthrew Bashar al-Assad in December, there have been repeated negotiations between the ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... of the Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. All of these measures ...

The Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have struck a deal with the central government on running a key dam they ...