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After Comeback, Southern Iraq’s Marshes Are Now Drying Up
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter recovering from Saddam Hussein’s campaign to drain them, Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes are disappearing as a regional drought enters its fourth year and upstream dams cut off water flows ...
Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq's rivers and marshlands
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOn a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch:...
Aziz Saleh al-Numan, ‘King of Diamonds’ in the infamous Iraqi ‘deck of cards’ – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAziz Saleh al-Numan, the “King of Diamonds”, who has died aged 82, figured among the elite of Saddam...