{
  "id": 867512,
  "title": "What lies beneath Iraq’s desert? A river filled with rare blind fish",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/what-lies-beneath-iraqs-desert-a-river-filled-with-rare-blind-fish",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T10:19:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/what-lies-beneath-iraqs-desert-a-river-filled-with-rare-blind-fish-1.500640890"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Iraq: Iraqi environmental police have documented an underground river inhabited by rare blind fish deep beneath the desert of Anbar province, in an unusual environmental and geological discovery. The site lies at Al Khasfa, a deep geological depression and cave formation near Haditha in western Iraq. Footage released by Iraq’s Ministry of Interior showed members of the environmental police…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}