And it will probably get worse in the coming years.Climate change exacerbated a severe drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran and made it ... the hard-hit areas of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which ...

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 33 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

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Long, twisting roads draw lines over the valleys and slopes here in western Iran. They are ancient paths, trodden by feet and hooves for thousands of years in the ever repeating movement of migration.

The world's first empire, known as Akkad, was founded some 4,300 years ago, between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers ... and east into Iran. The Akkadians were well organized and well armed ...

DUBAI − Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried ...

As Iran has shown, Islamic extremism is the ... is impounding the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Much of the water that Arabs and perhaps Israelis will need to drink in the future ...

You have literally the genocide of all the inhabitants of Gaza live on the smartphones of everybody in the world,' says ...

In Iraq, the date palm and its bounty are national icons, but they are being battered by drought, as farmers do their best to ...

[THEME MUSIC] Israel’s stunning series of military successes against its longtime foe, Hezbollah, raised the question of whether the group’s backer, Iran, would retaliate. On Tuesday ...