HUWAIZAH MARSHES, IRAQ (AFP) – To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometres of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swathes of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes. Iraq’s swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and […]
To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometers (six miles) of sun-scorched land in southern Iraq, where drought ravages devastating