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 ...
BAGHDAD — The wooden boats are patched and painted on the shore, and Lufti Mahmoud, his hands as coarse as fishing nets, pushes his skiff into the Tigris and glides against the current, remembering ...
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 ...
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