The Ahwar is made up of seven components: three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh areas in southern Iraq. The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form ...

Gone may be the days of raising livestock and traversing narrow waterways lined with dense reed beds in southern Iraq's once-lavish ... whose roots run deep in the marshes, told The National.

said Sajad Hussein as he steered his small black wooden boat along a waterway between dense forests of reeds and papyrus plants that grow through the marshes in southern Iraq. The 27-year-old ...

"The marshes are our livelihood -- we used to fish here and our livestock could graze and drink," said Gassed, 35, from a hamlet near Huwaizah. Southern Iraq's marshlands were inscribed as a ...

In October, an official in the impoverished rural province of Dhi Qar told AFP that in the previous six months, 1,200 families had left the marshes and other agricultural areas of southern Iraq ...

Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups’ evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran ...

Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. This story is part of a series on marshes in Maine co-published with The Maine Monitor. HANCOCK — On a warm bright ...

In Press. Stevens, M.L. and N. Salman. 2015. Application of International Water Law in Eden: Environment Protection of the Mesopotamian Marshes in Southern Iraq. Wetlands, Science and Policy 32(3): 17 ...

3) Preserving the Mesopotamian Marshes The Mesopotamian Marshes ... For example, the World Food Programme (WFP) is undertaking afforestation projects in both southern Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, ...

Jassim al-Assadi, head of Nature Iraq, has worked to raise awareness of the threats facing the country's southern wetlands ... of the famed Mesopotamian marshes has been kidnapped by armed ...

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 ... that 13 percent of people in central and ...