A bridge believed to be about 4,000 years old, in the ancient city-state of Lagash, has been uncovered in southern Iraq. “‘Improving’ is a good term to describe it, or ‘healing’ or ‘recovering,’” said Jaafar Jotheri, a professor of archaeology at University of Al-Qadisiyah, describing the current state of the field in his country. There was little opportunity to transfer …
DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. In 2014, Iraq’s Water Ministry prepared a confidential report that spelled out a “single truth:" In two years, Iraq’s water supply would no longer meet demand, and the gap would keep widening. “I like to keep it to myself,” Eroglu’s Iraqi counterpart, Mahdi Hamdani, said regarding his …
They smiled as they were dying. In March 1998, Dr Jawad Khadim al-Ali – trained in Britain and a member of the Royal College of Physicians – showed me his maps of cancer and leukaemia clusters around the southern city of Basra and its farming hinterland, the killing fields of the last days of the 1991 Gulf war “that were …
A fire swept through a coronavirus ward in southern Iraq, killing at least 58 people and injuring dozens more, Iraqi medical officials said late Monday. The officials said all those who died suffered severe burns during the blaze at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in the southern city of Nasiryah. Another health official in Dhi Qar province, where Nasiriyah is located, said …
