The rivers of Iraq, above all the Tigris and Euphrates, are drying up. The country is becoming more arid, and desertification is eating into the limited amount of agricultural land. “On 1 July ...

Lara Marlowe reports from Amman On my large, fold-out map of the Middle East, Iraq is coloured light ... I had a long look at the countries surrounding Saddam Hussein, and realised how isolated ...

As the map demonstrates, Iraqi Kurdistan now controls the border crossings linking the Kurdish regions of the two countries. The Kurds in Syria and Iraq are also both considering an increasingly ...