The Samarra bridge has a dam that generates power and regulates water levels on the Tigris River.
War with Syria and Iran would make the Iraq War look like a leisurely stroll along the Tigris.
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"There's no other galaxy you can get to, " declares Avi Tiomkin, chief strategist at Tigris Financial in New York.
We dined in their mess hall and drank purified water from the Tigris that they bottle at the base.
Farther east, there is a potentially lethal row brewing among Turkey, Syria and Iraq over the Tigris and Euphrates.
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces secured seven areas along the Tigris in a Tuesday operation, the military said.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said that U.S.-led forces have not crossed the Tigris River and are not approaching Baghdad.
On the eastern bank of the Tigris, a semblance of normality persisted.
Along the Tigris River in southern Baghdad, a surprise U.S.-Iraqi operation resulted in the arrests of 33 suspected insurgents, the U.S. military said Thursday.
And they're both right across the Tigris River from one another.
Like other would-be Olympians, they train for hours each day, on the river or on rowing machines and weights at their boathouse on the Tigris.
The Tigris in Baghdad is reduced to a third of its normal level, disease-ridden livestock are dying of hunger, and worse is still to come.
Mr Hussein may destroy dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
It would have devastating consequences far beyond the Tigris and Euphrates.
While the crew was filming outside a vehicle, coalition forces fired warning shots into a river, Kimmitt said, apparently referring to the Tigris River, which passes Samarra.
Twenty minutes before, Mellinger, who goes by Brad but is named Kevin, was running a reconnaissance mission on the banks of the Tigris River when he went down.
Members of the 4th Platoon try to learn a few Kurdish words over lunch at a command outpost by the Tigris River in the western part of Mosul.
He demonstrated its reach by showing on-screen the change in the ecology of the Tigris-Euphrates basin in southern Iraq, as recorded by satellite photographs, from 1973 to 2000.
The museum is home to archaeological artifacts from thousands of years of history in the Tigris-Euphrates basin, widely held to be the site of the world's earliest civilizations.
That has meant putting soldiers on rural outposts along the Tigris River on the southernmost tip of Baghdad where until recently insurgents had launched mortars and placed roadside bombs with relative freedom.
It moves just a few metres at a time, backed up from the entrance to a bridge across the Tigris that I have to cross daily to get to work.
There's an Arkansas National Guard medevac unit at Camp Delta just outside the city of Al Kut on a bend of the Tigris river about 60 miles south of Baghdad.
Chasing remnants of the Iraqi 10th Armored Division and blocking key bridges over the Tigris River, Newland's unit has been zig-zagging across central and eastern Iraq for a week now.
The Iraqis blocked three bridges across Tigris River from the eastern side with large concrete blocks and dump trucks, moving antiaircraft and artillery weapons on their side of the bridges.
KUT, Iraq -- On a dusty country road outside this city of 350, 000 on the Tigris River, a man in a white robe flagged down a U.S. Marines light armored vehicle.
That Great Britain be accorded (1) the ports of Haifa and Acre, (2) guarantee of a given supply of water from the Tigris and Euphrates in area (a) for area (b).
When rowing on the river Tigris, he has to continually look over his shoulder in case his boat collides with one of the many fishing vessels that also use the river.
Shortly after the first wave of morning attacks, more car bombs exploded in and around Baghdad, triggering panic among residents and measures like the closure of several bridges spanning the Tigris River.
But it clearly occurred to some of these displaced farmers that the slow-moving waters of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, near sea level, could be diverted using canals and used to water crops.
Often they follow a tragedy, such as when Sunnis risked their lives diving into the Tigris to save hundreds of Shia pilgrims who fell into the river after the collapse of a bridge in 2005.
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