Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since ...

In drought-stricken Iraq, farmers like Hadi Saheb are drilling wells to tap into groundwater reserves, enabling them to cultivate desert lands and increase wheat production. While this government ...

Desert camping is becoming popular in Iraq as the country experiences a period of relative stability, and young men looking for a ‘safe’ adventure swap city life for serenity among the sand dunes.

DHI QAR, Iraq, April 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer severe droughts that endanger ...

This is Jordan's Black Desert, also known as Harrat al-Sham, a frontier in more ways than one. The harsh, landscape tells the story of past and present civilisations who have tried to tame it.

The initiative leases desert land to farmers at a symbolic price of one dollar per dunum (0.25 hectares in Iraq's measurement), provides subsidised irrigation systems, and buys their harvest at a ...

An Iraqi camper watches the sunset from his jeep in the Samawa desert. “The city is full of dust, noise and daily annoyances,” the 34-year old influencer said during his first desert camping trip.

Thousands of young date palms, Iraq's national symbol, form lines that extend from the edge of the desert near the central city of Karbala and into the horizon. Iraq's prized trees are central to a ...

Iraq shifts to using desert well for agriculture Analysts warn move is not sustainable, will dry aquifers Climate change, upstream dams dry out rivers - officials Officials say 2023 wheat harvest ...

A man walks on cracked and dried up soil in the Hawiza marsh near the city of al-Amarah, in southern Iraq, July 27, 2022. The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have ...