Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. Part of the 200 ...

Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. February 7, 2012 AL-NASHWA, ...

Every day before the sun comes up, amateur fisherman Abu Zainab, 73, rides to the river on his bicycle, once a common means of transportation in Iraq's southern city of Basra. With his fishing line, ...

Recently screened at the prestigious DOK Leipzig documentary film festival, El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia tells the story of the 28,000 displaced Dalmatians who set up camp for two years in the ...

BASRA, Iraq – Iran and Iraq are boosting cooperation over reviving the shared Shatt al-Arab waterway by clearing away sunken ships and other debris from their 1980-88 war, an official in Iraq’s ...

SIBA, Iraq — The Shatt al Arab, the river that flows from the biblical site of the Garden of Eden to the Persian Gulf, has turned into an environmental and economic disaster that Iraq’s newly ...

01 March 2014 BAGHDAD: The long-disputed Thalweg river line between Iraq and Iran returned to life by a new later-to-be-signed agreement between the two sides. In a statement by Iraqi foreign ministry ...

The territorial waters of the Shatt al-Arab waterway between Iraq and Iran have been central to the dispute between Tehran and London over 15 Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Longtime Glen Burnie columnist Kathleen “Kathy” Anne Shatt cared about her family and community, and that’s how her brother Steve Thomas plans to remember her. Shatt, 60, died Monday at Hospice of the ...

Iraq controls just a sliver of coastline on the Persian Gulf at the estuary of the Shatt al-Arab, nestled between the borders of Iran to the east and Kuwait to the west. In this small stretch of ...

After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28,000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in ...