The ancient city of Ashur is located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia in a specific geo-ecological zone, at the borderline between rain-fed and irrigation agriculture. The city dates back ...

Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...