Khazir River

[1] The net yearly recharge rate of the valley water table is 111.6 mm/year[3][4][5] and the region is considered to be fertile.

[6] At a site called M'lefaat evidence has been found of a small village of hunter-gatherers dating to the 10th millennium BC that was contemporary with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A in the Levant.

[7][8] Latter the river was part of an irrigation area that supported the Assyrian city of Nimrud.

[9] Known to the Hellenistic Greeks as the river Boumelus[10] or Bumodus, it was the site of the Battle of Gaugamela between Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia.

In 2014, following bombing by United States planes, ISIL forces retreated back to the Khazir River,[15] where ISIL destroyed bridges built by the Americans 10 years prior.