Rivers is in good condition and will be evaluated in Turkey. NBC News would not elaborate on how Rivers escaped from Syria. VIDEO: Richard Engel and Crew on ‘Psychological Torture’ of Syrian ...

Six people have been confirmed dead after a school bus veered off the road into a river in northwest Syria. The incident occurred near Darkush, west of Idlib, with the bus plunging into the ...

In the past, Abdulsalam would have tapped the Barada, an ancient river that winds its way down the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to Damascus, where it breaks into seven tributaries feeding the verdant ...

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DAMASCUS, Syria, March 8, 2010 (ENS) – Up to 60 percent of Syria’s land and over one million people are gripped by the worst drought in 40 years, but a deep funding shortfall for emergency ...

The lack of water and the pollution are "driving further biodiversity loss along the lakes and rivers" in Syria's north and east, said the group's Wim Zwijnenburg. Raqa province received only 208 mm ...

Baathist leaders struggled to unify Syria which, to this day, is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al-Assad, took over the party ...

For Syria and Iraq, the problem is Turkey and Ankara’s mania for dam building. Since 1975, Turkish dams have reduced the flow of water to Syria by 40 percent and to Iraq by 80 percent.