Further flooding has affected parts of Afghanistan and Iran over the last week. Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) reports it has provided relief and assistance to around 50,000 people affected…
Heavy rain has caused flash flooding and landslides in areas of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan over the last few days. Parts of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan recorded around half its…
Flooding has affected areas of Iraq and Iran over the last few days, following the heavy rain and flooding in Saudi Arabia where Civil Defence reported that at least 12…
Update, 03 December 2018 Further heavy rain fell in Iraq from around 29 November according to media reports. Chinese News Agency Xinhua said the province of Nineveh declared state of…
Unusually heavy rain in parts of the Middle East from 04 November has caused flooding in Kuwait, Iraq and Iran. According to WMO figures, Bushehr in Iran recorded 67mm of…
Unusually heavy rain across parts of the Middle East has caused flooding in Syria, Iran and Jordan, where at least 21 people have died. Jordan Heavy rain began on 25…
Nine people have reportedly died in flooding in Iran over the last few days. This is the second spate of flooding and severe weather to hit the country in recent…
Iranian Red Crescent reported on 24 May, 2018, that 1 person died and 6 were injured in flooding caused by heavy rains in the county of Shemiranat, Tehran Province, close…
A storm sweeping across the Levant brought snow, heavy rain and some flooding to parts of south eastern Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and northern Iraq over the last few days. According…
The Iranian Red Crescent says that flash floods triggered by heavy rain in northern Iran have left at least 12 people dead and two missing. Flooding has affected the provinces…
Iranian Red Crescent says that flash flooding and landslides affected than 40 counties in six provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Mazandaran and Ardebil in Iran’s northwest on…
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (WMO) – Climate change, environmental degradation, population growth and urbanization are putting pressure on water supplies in many parts of the Asian region, and exposure…
Of the 1.35 million people killed by natural hazards from 1996 to 2015, 90 percent died in low and middle-income countries, reports Megan Rowling for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. BARCELONA,…
After the harrowing impact of tsunamis on coastal areas around the Indian Ocean in December 2004 that killed up to 230,000 people, and on the Japanese coast in March 2011…
At least four people have died in thunderstorms and flooding on Friday 02 September 2016 in the northern Iranian province of Golestan, according to Iran’s IRIB news agency. IRIB said…
Heavy rain and flooding since late October have left almost 70 people dead in Iran and Iraq. The UN have said that the flooding in Iraq has exacerbated a cholera…
