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 ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

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

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

The big question is what comes next in Syria and how the government of Shara’a is able to navigate the differing agendas in ...

Security continues to deteriorate in northeast Syria as ongoing clashes threaten the country’s transition towards an era of ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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