The nation’s plan to control its most precious resource includes a controversial dam that will drown some of its history. The ancient town of Hasankeyf sits on the bank of the Tigris River.

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates ... of the Renaissance Dam on the Nile River. All of these measures come together ...

Iraqi engineers are warning that a dam which sits just above the bustling ... on the local population to move at least 6km from the river Tigris, was "ridiculous". The US embassy in Baghdad ...

Images & Stories / Alamy The waters of the Tigris River gave rise to the first settlements ... the massive hydroelectric Ilisu Dam is expected to be completed in 2013. The reservoir created ...

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 ...

China recently approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam, across the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. When fully up and running, it will be the world's largest power plant—by some ...

(NOTE: The above video is from a previous report on the deaths of two kayakers after going over the dam.) RELATED: Bodies recovered Monday in White River identified as missing kayakers The coroner's ...

In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey ... and in a hundred years someone can pick over my pots and pans in the dirt, too.” ...