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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq.

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq. He is just one of many Iraqis who have turned ...

This 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 ...