| Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there. |
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| In front of me is a Bailey bridge across a wide canal that transfers water from the Euphrates River to a lake further to the east. |
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| The second choke point was a set of bridges crossing the Euphrates River, which was called Objective Peaches. |
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| A cheering crowd dragged their burned and mutilated bodies through the streets and hanged two bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates River. |
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| Iraqi forces ambushed marines when they crossed the Euphrates river near Nassiriya. |
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| The Syrian Desert, which is crossed by the Euphrates River, as well as semiarid and desert plateaus dominate the landscape. |
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| Engineers built canals to siphon water from the Euphrates River and transport it to their fields, giving rise to the world's first irrigation-based society. |
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| The reminder of the population, older women and children, are taken to places unfit for humans in Asia Minor, and others to the desert between Syria and the Euphrates River. |
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| Palace B, located in the Raqqa region, extending to the east of the Euphrates River and bordered by its tributary the Balikh River, is one such palace. |
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| Around 10,000 years ago, this provided a staple diet for the hunter-gatherers in Mesopotamia and in the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys in the Middle East, an area called the Fertile Crescent. |
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| Army elements met resistance from Iraqi troops defending cities and key bridges along the Euphrates River. |
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| American troops rushed through the gap and reached the Euphrates River at the town of Musayib. |
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| In late 1299, the Mongol Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan, son of Arghun, took his army and crossed the Euphrates river to again invade Syria. |
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| As Castamon, it was on the northern trunk route to the Euphrates River and was an important Byzantine town captured by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century. |
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| After his Nubian war Thutmose penetrated to the Euphrates River in the vicinity of Carchemish in Syria as he continued the pursuit of the Hyksos, Asiatic rulers who had recently dominated Egypt. |
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| It was also situated near a number of strategically important bridges over the Euphrates River. |
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