|
 |
|
Euphrates RiverArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlUK Express,On your right, overlooking the Euphrates river, is a palace and beyond that a huge tower. You might even see extraordinary terraced gardens designed to US troops leave more security in hands of Iraqis - 16 Nov 2008 guardian.co.uk,..."And so as you go throughout, from Fallujah all the way up the Euphrates River Valley, up to al-Qaim â€� where we used to have Marines actually living in Syria: US helicopters attack Syrian farm, leaving 8 dead - Oct 26, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,Four helicopters flying along the Euphrates River struck the Sukkariyeh Farm near the town of Abu Kamal, the Syrian government said. Syria and the Iranian path - Nov 15, 2008 Ha'aretz,The report will state that IAEA inspectors discovered traces of enriched uranium at the site on the bank of the Euphrates River. This will be ElBaradei's US Marine Corps celebrates 233rd birthday - Nov 10, 2008 New York Daily News,US Marines scan the bank of the Euphrates River in Iraq's Anbar province during a tour of duty in 2007. Col Paul L. Damren cuts a birthday cake during a J. Michael Hagopian’s The River Ran Red premieres at Arpa ... - Oct 21, 2008 Armenian Reporter,...and the pathos of those Armenians who were deported from their homes and made it to the Euphrates River only to witness the worst kind of bloodshed, Tigris Dam Will Flood Historical Sites - Oct 23, 2008 The Epoch Times,Two other 5000 year-old Euphrates River cities have already suffered this fate, due to the construction of numerous dams. The Tigris River snakes through Iraqi Officials Find Mass Grave On Iraq Border With Syria - Oct 23, 2008 RTT News,Last week, farmers alerted the authorities about the graves in the Euphrates River valley near Syria. The grave, about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq-era swift boats to set sail anew - Oct 28, 2008 Daily Press,For the fourth time in their 2 1/2-year resurrection, inland amphibious units based in Virginia are returning to Iraq's Euphrates River. Making sailors out of policemen - Oct 23, 2008 Stars and Stripes,But only Riverine Squadron 3 has had the task of training Iraqis to maintain security at Haditha Dam and on the Euphrates River. Chief Petty Officers Corey Oregon soldier's killer in Iraq is sentenced to death - Oct 29, 2008 KPOJ,Private 1st Class Thomas Tucker and two other soldiers were ambushed near the Euphrates River and killed. This marks the first time an Iraqi was sent to Clean water often a luxury in Iraq - Nov 9, 2008 Atlanta Journal Constitution,Until an enterprising man started showing up with the tanker truck a couple of years ago, everyone drank from the Euphrates River. Air assaults, patrols, cooperative efforts marked Rakkasan deployment - Nov 9, 2008 Clarksville Leaf Chronicle,...of Owesat and Betra, former insurgent sanctuary areas, by establishing a permanent presence on the west side of the Euphrates River, officials said. Are More Cross-Border Attacks on the Way? - Nov 3, 2008 Spiegel Online,On Sunday, Oct. 26, two US military helicopters landed near a farmhouse in the Syrian village of Sukkariyeh located on the banks of the Euphrates River. NC court sends Blackwater lawsuit to arbitration - Oct 21, 2008 Rocky Mount Telegram,Their charred bodies were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. Their families accuse Blackwater of wrongful death. They argue that the Moyock-based Iraq: Can ancient Babylon be rescued? - Nov 12, 2008 The Associated PressAt the site, near the Euphrates River about 60 miles south of Baghdad, the AP journalists saw a gaudy reconstruction of the Ishtar gate built during Guerra Iraq - Oct 27, 2008 Yahoo! Italia Notizie,Four US military helicopters flying along the Euphrates River struck an area along Syria's border with Iraq Sunday, killing eight people, Pentagon weighs sending more special operatives to Afghanistan - Oct 26, 2008 Dallas Morning News,In Iraq, large portions of the population are urbanized in the flat plains of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys. But Afghanistan is mountainous and Anti-US sentiment grows in Syria after raid - Nov 10, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,At the site of the raid, a large cement building under construction along the Euphrates River, there is an eerie calm as military police stand guard in an Vets Running For Congress Focus On Iraq - Nov 2, 2008 CBS News,..."I say, 'about 100 meters from Euphrates River.'" As a Marine Lance Corporal, Lalor was deployed in combat at the start of the Iraq war, and now he opposes Al Qaida 'butcher' known for beheadings of innocents, captured in ... - Nov 13, 2008 World Tribune..."And so as you go throughout, from Faluja all the way up the Euphrates River Valley, up to Al Qaim — where we used to have Marines actually living in the In a desert camp, Iraqis find aid and zone of trust - Nov 6, 2008 Christian Science Monitor,...this and this," says Hamid, pointing to the helmet and body armor she was required to don while visiting a construction site along the Euphrates River. ’Tis the mud season - Nov 12, 2008 Grand Junction Free Press,Our camp lies just feet from the Euphrates River, therefore the water table sits about two inches below the ground. Needless to say when it rains, Mining and the BOE - Oct 29, 2008 ArmsControlWonk.com,We in the open-source community have discussed for some time whether the target on the banks of the Great Euphrates River was or wasn’ta nuclear reactor Bolton: Israel could strike Iran - Oct 22, 2008 Talk Radio News Service,...of the Euphrates river, that confronted with the prospect of a nuclear neighbor Israel, a nuclear enemy nearby, that Israel won’t hesitate a strike. More U.S. Special Forces debated for Afghanistan - Oct 30, 2008 Chicago Tribune,Unlike Iraq, where large portions of the population live in cities in the flat plains of the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys, Afghanistan's mountainous Report slams Iraq sewage project - Oct 26, 2008 Washington Times,...rely on local septic systems or amateur plumbing connections to the storm water collection system, which disposes of the waste into the Euphrates River. Questions raised over Syrian complicity in US raid - Nov 1, 2008 Times Online,...of eastern Syria when four Black Hawk helicopters swooped in low over the palm trees, heading from the border with Iraq formed by the Euphrates River. Eustis had own Indiana Jones - Nov 7, 2008 Orlando Sentinel,...expedition sponsored by the University of Chicago and financier John D. Rockefeller to unearth ruins in the ancient city of Ur near the Euphrates River. Unity at Risk, Envoys Say - Oct 23, 2008 Washington Post,Farmers tipped off authorities last week about the graves, located in the Euphrates River valley 200 miles northwest of Baghdad. Russia, Iran and Qatar made Qatar slams raid on Syria - Oct 27, 2008 Gulf Times,...an assault on a building site in Al Sukkiraya village, which lies 8km from the border on the Euphrates river and close to the Iraqi town of Al Qaim. Iraqi forces arrest 220 suspects in al Qaeda raid - Oct 31, 2008 Reuters UK,The area is in a zone along the Euphrates river by the border between Anbar and Babil provinces, dubbed the "triangle of death" by US forces in the years CNN Student News Transcript: October 28, 2008 - Oct 27, 2008 CNNThey killed also a fisherman who was fishing from the Euphrates river outside the farm. MCINTYRE: The US official calls the attack a "successful strike" Standoff at the 38th Parallel - Oct 30, 2008 American Enterprise Institute,This was a stunning parallel to the North's cloning of the Yongbyon reactor, on the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria, also undertaken entirely during A bird's-eye view of the Earth's natural splendor - Oct 27, 2008 Daily Star - Lebanon,His three days in Syria included visits to Aleppo, the Euphrates River, Palmyra, Homs and Hama as well as the Old City of Damascus. US helicopter raid on Syria: the reaction - Oct 27, 2008 guardian.co.uk,Akram Hameed, a man in his 40s who said he was injured in the attack while fishing in the Euphrates river, told Syrian television he saw four helicopters Syria slams deadly village raid as US 'war crime' - Oct 27, 2008 AFPAl-Sukkiraya is on the Euphrates river across the border from the Iraqi town of Al-Qaim, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda and other insurgents. PROMISES, PROMISES: Woes in Iraq sewage project - Oct 26, 2008 The Associated Press...where residents put sanitary waste into septic tanks that are then emptied by truck or flushed through the storm water system into the Euphrates River. US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria - Oct 26, 2008 The Associated PressHe said the aircraft flew along the Euphrates River into the area of farms and several brick factories. The witness spoke on condition of anonymity because Iraq officials find mass graves near Syrian border - Oct 22, 2008 The Associated PressFarmers tipped off authorities last week about the graves, located in the Euphrates River valley near Syria about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, Barack Obama: Secret Muslim? - Nov 2, 2008 History News Network,They especially pointed to verses such as Revelation 16:12, which predicted the drying up of the Euphrates River. Interpreters saw this as a symbol of the After fighting in Iraq, Durham vet fights for Obama - Oct 29, 2008 The Independent Weekly,Kuniholm is a Marine reservist from Durham who lost his right arm below the elbow in Iraq during a 2005 ambush on the Euphrates River. Monthly Archive - October 2008 - Oct 31, 2008 Wall Street Journal Blogs,...the 101st Airborne, were guarding a checkpoint June 16, 2006on the Euphrates River in the Yousifiyah area south of Baghdad, then a hotbed of insurgency. King Solomon’s Mines and the Empire of King David - Nov 3, 2008 theTrumpet.com,David was the famous leader who united the tribes and led them in a series of conquests that put Israelite soldiers on the banks of the Euphrates River, Last of NMCB-3’s Seabees return from Iraq - Oct 22, 2008 NavyTimes.com,Their engineering projects included the assembly of a 1063-foot-long floating steel bridge across the Euphrates River in Habbiniyah as well as other utility Attaque aéroportée contre la Syrie : confirmation américaine ... - Oct 26, 2008 Contre Info,...because of the sensitivity of the information, said the aircraft flew along the Euphrates River into the area of farms and several brick factories. US presses Iraq on security pact - Oct 22, 2008 Houston Chronicle,Farmers tipped off authorities last week about the graves, located in the Euphrates River valley near Syria about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad, Intriguing Questions and Troubling Answers over US Raid into Syria - Oct 29, 2008 Middle East Times,...especially along the Euphrates River, and that they have been having a disproportionate impact on insurgency attacks being carried out in Iraq's Lebanon denounces US raid in Syria as 'dangerous' - Oct 27, 2008 Earthtimes (press release),Witnesses have told of at least four helicopters having flown along the Euphrates river into the area of farms and brick factories. His country's keeper - Oct 25, 2008 Journal Times,...“We were going to do a little reconnaissance of a little village on the Euphrates River that hadn’t been explored yet,� he said. “We rolled in, in Humvees [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
|
MONGABAY.COM
SUPPORT Help support mongabay.com when you buy from Amazon.com T-SHIRTS 
CALENDARS 
CANVAS BAGS 
TOPICS more ARCHIVES 2008 July | June | May | April | March | February | January 2007 December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January 2006 2006 Highlights | December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | May | February | January 2005 December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January 2004 December | November | October | September | August | July June | May | April | March | February | January more |
|
About | Privacy Copyright Rhett Butler 2008 |
