The Euphrates River is one of the most important water systems in recorded history. Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable ...

Operation near Rawa, located on the Euphrates River's north bank, was part of larger campaign to defeat Daesh, says US ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

Zour, which remains divided between Syria's new government and a Kurdish-backed militia, is a hostage to competing ambitions.

The big question is what comes next in Syria and how the government of Shara’a is able to navigate the differing agendas in ...

CENTCOM stated on Saturday, United States and Iraqi military forces murder five Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in a collaborative ...

Security continues to deteriorate in northeast Syria as ongoing clashes threaten the country’s transition towards an era of ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Read CNN’s Haditha Killings Fast Facts and learn more about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...