This essential water system comprises two rivers (known today as the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) that flow North to South from Turkey to the Persian Gulf. The Tigris River begins at the Taurus ...

In recent days a fierce battle for control over northeast Syria's Tishreen dam between the SNA and SDF has left almost 300 people dead, with fighting ongoing.

Turkey's environmental ministry said it was testing the Euphrates for chemicals and had seen no evidence of any pollution so far. Culverts from a stream running to the river have been sealed off ...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) successfully defended against multiple offensives by the Turkish-backed Syrian ...

Nine people are missing after a landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey, authorities say ... raising fears the nearby Euphrates river would be affected. The mine is located in Erzincan ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday night said it continued thwarting ...

A counterattack was conducted around the Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates Monday morning by the Manbij Military Council of the ...

Kurdish-led forces near the border town of Kobani and the Tishrin dam on the Euphrates River. Turkey views the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) as a terrorist organization due to its ...

The Turkey-backed Syrian opposition groups had earlier taken control of Manbij from ... south of the Turkish border and west of the Euphrates river. The SDF could cross east of the river, nearer a ...