The Samarra bridge has a dam that generates power and regulates water levels on the Tigris River.
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said that U.S.-led forces have not crossed the Tigris River and are not approaching Baghdad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Al-Jazeera, as you know, is on the banks of the Tigris River, not far from the other TV, Abu Dhabi, the other Arabic satellite television that was also hit and was taken off air briefly at one point.
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.
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.
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.
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