Israel’s Cabinet today reviewed in detail the various developments surrounding steps taken or planned by the Arab states for diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River. The reports from the Arab ...

Houchang Chehabi, professor of International Relations and History at Boston University, explains the history of the Shatt al-Arab, the river that divides Iraq and Iran. Fifteen British sailors and ...

Arab member states of the Board for Exploitation of the Jordan River have started work to divert the river and its tributaries, in an effort to counter Israel’s tap of the river for its Negev ...

The Foreign Minister, Hoshyar Zebari announced that there are talks being held with Iran concerning the Shatt al-Arab river to facilitate the navigation there according to the agreement of 1975 that ...

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 ...

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