A plan for merging Syria with Egypt into a federal union at the expense of Israel’s existence, was revealed here today as having been prepared prior to the withdrawal of the American and British ...

The day after the Aswan communique was issued, Moscow Radio announced that the Soviet Union was granting Egypt “scientific and technical assistance for the creation of a nuclear physics ...

Aswan High Dam: Nasser's dream, Nubian nightmare . Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15, 1971 with the help of the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, the dam was to generate ...

Aswan High Dam. A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile ...

A crucial dam is at risk as fighting continues in several areas of northern Syria between Kurdish groups and Turkish-backed factions. While much of central and southern Syria appears calm after ...

Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, hailing it as the "greatest" engineering project in the 20th century. He added that Aswan has become the capital of solar energy and a ...

Syria in the Arab Spring. Yemen's 2011 uprising. Libya's Arab uprising. ... In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed.

In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. It had taken ten years to build, and was not without controversy.