Peter van Agtmael/Polaris, www.polarisimages.com Some displaced Marsh Arabs (a village near Basra) want more water diverted to the area to expand their homeland, but others reject traditional ways.

At one time, the lush marshes of southern Iraq nourished a thriving array of wildlife and half a million people known as the Marsh Arabs. Today, the region is not the "Fertile Crescent" it once was.

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Despite the ongoing tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, Jews and Arabs living in Israel continue to provide emotional support to one another, according to a study from the University of ...

The marshes have been occupied for thousands of years, but resistance to the Saddam regime by the marsh Arabs led to a terrible punishment, leaving tens of thousands homeless and destroying a ...