BAGHDAD (AP) — The top U.S. general in Iraq warned Thursday of the potential collapse of Mosul Dam in the country's north, saying that such an event could prove "catastrophic." The U.S.-led coalition ...

Fighters of the Islamic State militia took control Sunday of the largest dam in Iraq, a reservoir of oil and three cities after breaking the biggest defeat the Kurdish forces since they began ...

Iraq has endured decades of war, conflict, and instability, but its greatest threat may not come from politics or violence.

Kurdish peshmerga fighters have retaken at least part of the strategically important Mosul Dam, Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam, from Islamic State (ISIS) militants. BBC News reports that the ...

In northern Iraq stands a massive dam with the potential to unleash one of the worst disasters in modern history. Built on unstable, water-soluble foundations, the Mosul Dam has required constant ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) – It has been described by some as the most dangerous dam in the world. The Mosul dam, the largest in Iraq which produces hydroelectricity, is built on a foundation of soft gypsum rock making ...

MOSUL, Iraq -- When a heavy downpour the morning of June 15, 2019, dumped even more water into the 32 billion gallons already in the reservoir of Iraq's Mosul Dam, it didn't faze the U.S. Army Corps ...