Basra’s provincial leadership has begun formally mobilizing political support for an autonomy push, with council members ...

We trace the Battle of Basra from its role as Iraq’s southern gateway to the moment British armor rolled into a city already ...

Iraq plans to start a stalled project to construct a railway connecting its southern areas with neighboring Iran.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s electoral body on Thursday said it has begun issuing the “official signature forms” required ...

Oil Undersecretary Ezzat Saber Ismail announced a plan to increase Basra Gas Company production to 1,400 mmscfd by 2028 and ...

Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus, and Christians around the globe have observed the day for centuries with lights, ...

The story of Basra is a tale of two cities, the town most people live in and the special inner city built for Saddam Hussein. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports from Iraq's second largest city. After ...

OUTSIDE BASRA, Iraq — Women clutching babies and men gripping overstuffed duffel bags had gathered Sunday at the Azubayr Bridge, hoping to flee the tumultuous city of Basra, when a signal went up from ...

BASRA, Iraq -- Unknown assailants fired three Katyusha rockets at Iraq's Basra airport Saturday, an airport official said, after a chaotic and violent night that saw hundreds of protesters burning ...

CD shops sell love songs again. Some women emerge from their homes without veils, and alcohol sellers are coming out of hiding in the southern city of Basra — where religious vigilantes have long ...

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.