Many Syrian army officers fear that the merger ... Nasser’s failure to obtain American, British or Soviet financing for the Aswan dam as such a tragedy. On the contrary, some circles in these ...

The Soviets last month agreed to finance nearly half the cost of a $400 million high dam on the Euphrates—Syria’s answer to Aswan—that by 1972 will double the nation’s irrigated acreage ...

Today, from the great shell of the Aswan High Dam rising from the Egyptian Nile to T-54 tanks rumbling down the boulevards of Baghdad, with swarms of MIG jets on patrol over Syria or strafing ...

Hundreds of homes were destroyed when the Zeyzoun Dam near the village of Idlib - some 220 miles north of Damascus - burst on Tuesday. Syrian officials initially had said there were very few ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

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 ...

The Aswan governorate on Saturday 11/1/2025 marks the 65th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the High Dam in January 1960. Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, ...