Farmer Issa al-Moussa walks among his damaged wheat crop in eastern Syria after the nearby Euphrates River flooded in recent days due to heavy rainfall and increased flows from Turkey.Syrian authorities have said the country was experiencing an "exceptional" rise in water levels along the Euphrates River, which originates in Turkey and flows through the Raqa and Deir Ezzor provinces before reaching neighbouring Iraq.The water flooded fields and homes, took bridges and crossings out of service, and disrupted the operation of pumping stations for drinking water and irrigation."I ploughed my land, which is six dunams (6,000 square metres) in size, and each dunam cost me one million liras ($75)... This land is lost," Moussa told AFP from his farmland, part of which was still submerged in water.With his wheat crop destroyed, Moussa has no other source of income to feed his family.The energy ministry said the floods were caused by "the significant and unprecedented increase in water flows from the Turkish side".In Moussa's town, where many residents rely on agriculture as a source of income, water covered vast areas of farmland, while farmers stood in their fields assessing their losses.