In 2021, adventurer Leon McCarron traveled the length of the Tigris River from its source in southeastern Turkey through Iraq’s marshes and into the saline Arabian Gulf. To do so, he assembled an ...

It wasn't until Mosul, a city carved in two by the river, that we were finally able to travel more freely. When ISIS occupied Mosul from 2014-2017, it forbade residents from using the Tigris and Mosul ...