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Salt Lake City Weekly
April 19, 2018
The Syrian Refugee Crisis is one of the more horrific and urgent, as more than 250,000 have lost their lives and some 11 million forced from their homes. ... explore how Utah will meet its future water demands; how a dam would affect surrounding ecosystems and wildlife, and other environmental issues.
KPVI News 6
April 19, 2018
UN Security Council heads to retreat at odds over Syria. 16 min ago; 0 Ãâ÷ Facebook .... BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have approved an agreement allowing a utility company's $216.5 million in relicensing expenses for a three-dam hydroelectric project on the Snake River on the Idaho-Oregon border. Read moreÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 19, 2018
The Syrian “White Helmets” rescue organisation, which operates in rebel-held areas, has pinpointed for the OPCW team the places where victims of the suspected attack are buried, its head Raed Saleh said on Wednesday. A boy stands on the rubble of damaged buildings in the city of Douma, Dam.
PRESSTV
April 11, 2018
The recent alleged chemical attack near Damascus was a “false flag” operation by the US and its allies to launch an attack against the Syrian government and prolong the wars in the Middle East, a geo-political expert in London says. “Anyone with a brain knows that the so-called chemical weapons attackÃâà...
The Guardian
April 11, 2018
In Iraq, the Mosul Dam has seen a more protracted decline but it is also now down 60% from its peak in the 1990s as a result of low rainfall and competing demand from Turkish hydropower projects upstream on the Tigris and Euphrates. As in Syria and increasingly also Iraq, water stress has added toÃâà...
Science Magazine
April 10, 2018
Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000-year-old ziggurat at Iraq's Nimrud. The IS group has now been routed by Iraqi and Syrian forces,Ãâà...
gulfnews.com
April 7, 2018
At present, the country faces a growing shortage of water due to many factors, including several dam projects built by Iran and Turkey on the two main rivers ... “Each of neighbouring country whether Turkey, Iran or Syria, controls the water flow into Iraq according to its interests, needs and circumstancesÃâà...
The Register-Guard
April 1, 2018
Turkey's extensive system of about 1,000 dams has created water shortages in parts of Syria, Iraq and Iran. One of Turkey's largest and most controversial dam projects is the Guneydogu Anadolu Project, also known as the Southeastern Anatolia Project. The GAP involves construction of 22 dams along theÃâà...
Gulf Times
March 20, 2018
A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-government fighters were killed in a district of Syria's capital as Islamic State militants took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack. There was no immediate comment from the government on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which could notÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 14, 2018
Water to Syria's Afrin has now been cut for a week, the United Nations said on Wednesday, as Turkey's military finished encircling the Kurdish city in preparation for a major ground assault. Access to clean drinking water ended after Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters seized the main dam and waterÃâà...
HydroWorld
March 14, 2018
Afrin Dam, in northwestern Syria, is no longer supplying water to the nearby town of Afrin because of a change in control of the dam, also called 17 April Dam and Maydanki Dam. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, this change of control happened on March 7Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
March 13, 2018
The water supply to Afrin town has been cut off since 07 March, following a change in control of the 17th April Dam, north-east of Afrin town. .... On 11 March, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) stated that in response to the increasing humanitarian needs in Afrin and Tell Refaat in northern Syria.
Anadolu Agency
March 9, 2018
Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated another village in Syria's northwestern Afrin and took control of a strategic dam. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, Turkish troops and FSA cleared Hallubi Kabir village in Afrin's northeast from PYD/PKK terrorist group,Ãâà...
FAIR
March 7, 2018
As Joshua Landis (Syria Comment, 1/15/18), director of the Center for Middle East Studies, notes, the US controls “half of Syria's energy resources, the Euphrates dam at Tabqa, as well as much of Syria's best agricultural land.” Anglo-American press coverage of the Syrian situation has grossly misledÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 5, 2018
Operation Olive Branch was launched by Turkey on tp remove the PKK/PYD/YPG/KCK and Daesh terrorists from Afrin in northwestern Syria. According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkish borders and in the region as well as to protect Syrian peopleÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
However, information has been received that water shortages in the city continue to be a concern following the destruction of a water pumping station in Jandairis sub-district, and the change in control of the Midanki Dam, north-east of Afrin city. A humanitarian organization indicated that three out of the fourÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
December 31, 1999
A dam in a region of northwestern Syria recently liberated from terrorists will soon be operational again, said Turkish officials visiting the region, near Turkey's southern border, on Thursday. Officials from Turkey's State Waterworks paid a visit to Afrin, northwestern Syria to inspect the Mydanki Dam, whichÃâà...
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