The Ahwar is made up of seven components: three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh areas in southern Iraq ... the margins of freshwater marshes and developed into some of the most important ...

Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their black skin glistening under the country’s relentless summer heat.

In October, an official in the impoverished rural province of Dhi Qar told AFP that in the previous six months, 1,200 families had left the marshes and other agricultural areas of southern Iraq ...