For decades, engineers have been fighting to prevent a catastrophe at Mosul Dam, a massive structure built across the Tigris ...

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Mosul Dam long has been branded the world's most dangerous dam, at risk of collapsing and sending water crashing over millions of people. That prospect is even greater than ...

Now, Syria is saying water levels have stabilized. Nevertheless, the flooding and the change in water flows show that the ...

As many as 1.5 million people could lose their lives if Iraq's massive Mosul Dam collapses as engineers now fear. Remedial work on the dissolving substrate on which the dam is built will take an ...

DUBAI — The Mosul Dam was always meant to be a symbol of Iraq’s grandiose ambition to escape poverty and underdevelopment. But from the start, the $1.5 billion barrier north of the city was beset with ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's minister of water resources on Saturday played down warnings that Mosul dam will collapse, estimating only a "one in a thousand" chance of failure and saying the solution ...

Kurdish forces say they've retaken areas near the country's largest dam in Mosul from Islamic separatists, a day after U.S. officials acknowledged conducting airstrikes in the region. The Associated ...

AT THE MOSUL DAM, Iraq -- The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two ...