In the Bible, the Euphrates was even mentioned as one of the four rivers that served the Garden of Eden. But now, in the face of global climate change and human impact, the river is under threat, ...

Arid Middle East becoming rapidly drier One key element that unites the two countries regardless of the politics of the moment is the Euphrates ... their major rivers is sagging under the weight ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...

In the book - actually a set of inscribed clay tablets - Gilgamesh was described as having been buried under the Euphrates, in a tomb apparently constructed when the waters of the ancient river parted ...

The US military today launched a major offensive in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley aimed at ... through a tunnel network they dug under the ancient city in the north of Iraq.

In a move that could expose residents in southern provinces to drought, Isis fighters have redirected the flow of the Euphrates River ... effort to stop areas under their control from flooding ...

The pipes have been laid at Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River ... generate hydroelectricity. Under its Southeast Anatolia Project ...

The Bible describes a river flowing out of Eden that split into four branches — the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates. Scholars have long assumed Eden was in Iraq, home to the Tigris and ...