| A U.S. helicopter went down in Mosul with its two crewmen while searching for a missing GI after a patrol boat capsized in the Tigris. |
| The scientist recently returned from an expedition to Turkey's Taurus Mountains near the headwaters of the Tigris River. |
| One-fifth of Turkey's irrigable land is in the eight southeastern provinces where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers originate. |
| Gaugamela is situate in one of the wide plains that lie between the Tigris and the mountains of Kurdistan. |
| The streets were more deserted than ever but a few Iraqis were queuing on both sides of the Tigris River waiting for buses. |
| It is said to be the fish with whose gall Tobit recovered his sight, although it seems improbable that a fish of this species should have leapt out of the River Tigris. |
