(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Islamic State offensive in northern Iraq that began Monday with a series of car bombings on Kurdish military positions has been thwarted thus far by U.S.-led airstrikes outside the critical Mosul ...

The ruins of a 3,400-year-old lost city — complete with a palace and a sprawling fort — have been unearthed in Iraq after extreme drought severely depleted water levels in the country's largest ...

Workers at the dam still producing electricity, grouting dam, mitigating breach. — -- Employees at the Mosul Dam in Iraq, which is under the control of a brutal group of Islamist fighters, are ...

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WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A $27 million U.S. project has not improved Iraq's largest dam, which is in danger of failing and potentially killing thousands, the U.S. inspector for Iraq ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Italian engineers hired to help prevent a catastrophic collapse of Iraq's largest hydro-electric dam will need at least two months to assess the structure before starting major ...