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Smithsonian
December 5, 2017
In response the Iraqi government constructed a series of canals linking the Euphrates to Lake Tharthar, a reservoir northwest of Baghdad. With talks long frozen, Iraq has been dependent on oft-disputed arrangements with its upstream partners. “Turkey will give us some water, but it's mostly wastewater and irrigation spill-offÃâà...
Jordan Times
November 23, 2017
By the afternoon the Hashed said its forces had already taken control of 56 villages and hamlets to reach the area around Lake Tharthar, capturing three strategic bridges and destroying eight car bombs and pick-up trucks along the way. Al Jazeera region is where Daesh fighters escaped to when IraqiÃâà...
War on the Rocks
September 20, 2016
On November 13, 2014, 16 members of the Sunni Arab Albu Nimr tribe were abducted from their homes by ISIL near Tharthar Lake in Anbar province. With one woman and two children among them, the tribal members were driven to Shtyah area and all were summarily executed by ISIL fighters.
Newsweek
December 19, 2015
Iraq Members of Shiite paramilitaries and the Iraqi army ride on a tank from Lake Tharthar toward Ramadi, Iraq, to fight against ISIS militants on May 27. REUTERS/Stringer. Share. World Iraq Ramadi Shiites Sunnis Islamic State. American commanders have been hailing the advance of the retrained IraqiÃâà...
The New Yorker
November 25, 2014
Twenty miles to the west is a reservoir, Lake Tharthar. Canals and tributaries cleave away from the lake's eastern embankments like rivulets coursing through dirt, creating easy-to-defend, striplike islands, some of them fringed with marshland. Steele's intelligence team, along with members of the DefenseÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 31, 2009
By LAKE THARTHAR Iraq (AFP). The tranquil scene at LakeTharthar, Iraq's largest stretch of water belies its recent violent history as an Al-Qaeda stronghold until just six months ago. These days, families gather around barbecues and fishermen work their nets where before bodies were often found floatingÃâà...
Independent
April 14, 2008
Many of Saddam's 52 palaces had access to water, the premier among them, the Maqar-el-Tharthar, north of Baghdad, beside Lake Tharthar, was a complex of 45 marble mansions where members of his coterie and his sons Uday and Qusay would also go on angling trips, surrounded by bodyguards.
Center for Research on Globalization
October 14, 2007
The accompanying “news” story — which depicted a “fierce battle” on the shores of Lake Tharthar — was based entirely on uncorroborated statements by Iraqi and American spokesmen that suggested two highly improbable developments: first, that the so-called Iraqi army had suddenly gotten its actÃâà...
BBC News
October 13, 2007
A child was also killed on Friday by explosives hidden in a sweets trolley. An official statement from the US military said Thursday's loss of life occurred during an air and ground assault aimed at senior leaders of al-Qaeda thought to be meeting in the Lake Tharthar region, 120km (75 miles) north of theÃâà...
