Topic: Tigris River
The trail along the Tigris River is an obstacle course of broken concrete and dirt. Sometimes a dead dog blocks the path. The smell of trash mixes...
Nineveh, an ancient city and the capital of Assyria when the empire was at the height of its power. Nineveh was on the east bank of the Tigris...
A string of attacks against Shiite pilgrims in the past three days killed 70 people in Baghdad, security officials said on Thursday, exposing the continued ability of insurgents to inflict bloodshed.The death toll was another blow to the leaders of a ...
A string of attacks against Shiite pilgrims in the past three days killed at least 68 people in Baghdad, security officials said Thursday, exposing the problems of protecting the capital from insurgents.The death toll was another blow to the leaders of ...
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt targeted Shiite pilgrims and murdered 28 people in Baghdad on Wednesday while five more were killed in bomb attacks, security officials told AFP.The suicide attack occurred in Adhamiyah, a Sunni district across the Tigris ...
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt murdered 28 Shiite pilgrims on Wednesday while five more were killed in bomb attacks against worshippers in Baghdad, a security official told AFP.The suicide attack occurred in Adhamiyah, a Sunni district across the Tigris ...
Tukulti-Ninurta I, (reigned c. He extended Ashur's fortifications, but, after constructing a new capital, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, facing Ashur across the Tigris River, he was slain by his son..
Wadi Tharthar, Arabic Wadi Ath-tharthar, intermittent stream of north-central Iraq, rising from several headstreams in the Sinjar Mountains (west of Mosul) and flowing southward to Lake Tharthar, which is a reservoir 60 miles (100 km) long.
Ashur, also spelled Assur, modern Qal?at Sharqa? Ashur was a name applied to the city, to the country, and to the principal god of the ancient Assyrians.. Strategically, Ashur was smaller and less well-situated than Nimrud (Kalakh) or Nineveh, the other ...
Iraq has rebuilt the dome and minarets of a Shiite shrine that was bombed in 2006 in an attack which unleashed a wave of sectarian bloodletting that claimed tens of thousands of lives. "The technical teams were able to complete the rebuilding ...
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Families enjoy a picnic in a park in Abu Nawas street in Baghdad by the River Tigris.
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Women and children play in a park in Abu Nawas street in Baghdad by the River Tigris.
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