Iraqi residents must wade through a lake of water due to a main break (Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) Over centuries, the civilisation of ancient Mesopotamia grew up along the banks of two ...
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 ...
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 ...