President Masoud Pezeshkian said that unity among regional nations would lead to greater security and progress among ...

Revered by ethnic Azeris as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan,” Lake Urmia was second only to the Caspian Sea as the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East, a haven for birds and bathers.

Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades. Now the lake ...

Urmia University (also known as University of Urmia) is a public university in the West Azerbaijan province, Iran. It was founded by Joseph Cochran in 1878 as West Minster Medical College, in the city ...

The incident followed massive Newroz, Kurdish New Year celebrations in Urmia, which saw the participation of some 150,000 Kurds. The West Azarbaijan Police Information Center was quoted by Iran ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least 50 people were poisoned due to a carbon monoxide gas leak at a hall in northwestern Iran’s Urmia city, health officials said. “Due to carbon monoxide ...

The latest agreement, signed on Dec. 1, 2024, formalizes a project titled "The Project for Developing Conservation System of Wetlands in Lake Urmia and Other Wetlands including their Surrounding ...

Like the famous Aral Sea in central Asia and the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the expanse of Iran’s Lake Urmia has been drying up for years. Once considered the largest lake in the Middle East ...

The city of Urmia is located within 20 km of Urmia Lake in the middle of the Urmia plain at an altitude of 1332 meters above sea level in West Azarbaijan Province. The weather in Urmia is fairly hot ...

Over the past two decades, Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, has shrunk by nearly 95 percent, destroying the once-booming tourism and fishing industries and the habitat of local fauna, including ...