The West Asia and North Africa region is facing a water scarcity crisis. About 60 percent of the region’s population lives in ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

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Operation near Rawa, located on the Euphrates River's north bank, was part of larger campaign to defeat Daesh, says US ...

(SDF on X) The Tishrin Dam on the Euphrates River in Syria has become a key point of conflict in the country’s post-Assad era. Since the fall of dictator Bashar al Assad’s regime on December 8, the ...

Atatürk Dam is Turkey’s largest. Named after Kemal Atatürk, the country’s founder, the dam was built on the Euphrates River in the 1980s as part of Turkey’s sweeping Southeastern Anatolia ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

CENTCOM stated on Saturday, United States and Iraqi military forces murder five Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in a collaborative ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

WANA nations struggle with conflicts, ambiguous treaties, and the increasing weaponization of water resources.