BASRA, Iraq – The brackish water pouring from the taps of homes in Basra has caused stomach ailments and skin rashes for thousands in the southern Iraqi city once famous for its network of freshwater ...

People gather at the scene of the assassination of Iraqi activist Soad al-Ali, who has been involved in organizing protests demanding better services in the city, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, ...

US fighter planes and helicopter gunships struck the southern Iraqi city of Basra and the teeming slums of Baghdad’s Sadr City with bombs and missiles Friday as the offensive launched by Iraqi puppet ...

Basra residents have relaunched a constitutional campaign for regional status, citing economic neglect, historical precedent, ...

2003-03-31 04:00:00 PDT Outside Basra, Iraq-- Women clutching babies and men gripping overstuffed duffel bags had gathered at the Zubair Bridge on Sunday, hoping to flee the tumultuous city of Basra, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – British troops handed over their last base inside the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, leaving it to local Shiite Muslim political parties and militias whose power struggles often ...

Police Col. Nouri Jaffar Fayadh has more than 40 patrols on the streets of Basra. He says violence has dropped more than 90 percent since government troops regained control of Basra in March. Actress ...

British military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ronnie McCourt told Reuters, ”A couple of thousand Iraqi civilians trying to get out of Basra to the north and west are being fired on by paramilitaries ...

Basra, Iraq, is known as "the bride of the gulf" after its life-supporting fertile lands, and building vertically is one way to protect those lands. The planned Bride vertical city does just that.

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, mourners chant anti government slogans while carrying the coffin of Abdul Salam Fathi, a protester whose family said he was killed in a protest, during ...