Disaster looms in Syria as Euphrates dwindles | In Pictures News
Syrias longest river used to flow by his olive grove, but Khaled al-Khamees says it has now receded into the distance, parching his trees and leaving his family with hardly a drop to drink. Its as if we were in the desert, said the 50-year-old farmer, standing on what last year was theEuphratesriverbed.