In August 2015, Syrian rebel groups cut off water from a spring in Ain al-Fijah, reducing water output to Damascus by 90 percent for three days and leading to water shortages and rationing. Rebels continue to periodically shut off the supply from the spring, resulting in water shortages in Ain al-Fijah and Damascus. Rebels threaten to blow up the spring if government forces enter the region.
A bomb placed near a water main line explodes, breaking the pipe and forcing engineers to shut off the water supply to the entire city of Baghdad, Iraq. Major flooding in the surrounding neighborhood is caused as well.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) places an explosive device on the Trans-Arabian Pipeline in Jordan in an attempt to pollute water that provides drinking water and water for fisheries to Israel in the Hutch Valley. While the explosive device did cause significant damage to the pipeline, reports do not indicate that water supplies were affected.
A water pipeline is damaged by a targeted explosion, disrupting water services to approximately two million people in Baghdad, Iraq.
Four Christian missionaries from the U.S. are killed and one other seriously wounded when they are attacked while working on a water project in Mosul, Iraq.
A driver of a truck transporting mineral water in Mosul, Iraq is killed when his truck is set on fire.
The Tigris River is polluted with oil after a bomb strikes a pipeline near Baiji, Iraq. The river supplies drinking water for nearby communities.
An employee of the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq is killed by a gunman.
An explosive device targeting a water main in Kirkuk, Iraq, detonates prematurely, killing two and injuring one of the attackers.
The drivers of a water truck are killed in Baghdad, Iraq by a gunman while driving for work.