Toxic water in Iraq’s oil-rich but water-poor south has hospitalised more than 90,000 people and sparked a wave of unrest. In the first in a new series, Water Wars, Bel Trew reports ...

Residents of Iraq's southern city of Basra have begun strolling riverfront streets again after four years of fear, their city much quieter since British troops withdrew from the grand Saddam ...

“SECURITY has dramatically improved in the past year” versus “We don't know what'll happen when the foreign troops leave” are the competing mantras of Basra, Iraq's battered second city ...

Basra earned an early reputation for mischief, rising in rebellion twice against the Umayyads, first in 683 and again in 701. It then became an important intellectual centre under the Abbasid ...

Earlier on Monday, a presidential palace in the city was seized by Royal Marines 3 Commando with little resistance, said the BBC's David Bowden. Most of Basra is now under British control, a military ...

Back in May 2007, British troops were based in two locations in the city: Basra Palace, a sprawling base by the Shatt al-Arab river, and the PJCC in the centre of Basra, where just over 100 ...

A series of bomb attacks in the Basra area of southern Iraq has killed at least 68 people and injured many more. The first blasts - apparently suicide bombings - occurred outside three police stations ...

Allied troops are just four miles from the centre of Basra and have set up camp on the outskirts of the city. Despite facing lively mortar defence from Iraqi fighters, coalition forces have made ...

Basma Salma, a former member of the city’s governorate council, told Rudaw on Tuesday that “the explosion struck Basra city centre, close to the al-Jumhuri General Hospital.” “Basra is ...

The Desert Rats have stormed into the centre of Basra to liberate the city. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in Challenger tanks, along with the Black Watch in armoured vehicles and the Royal ...

The main mural inside one Basra city centre police station is of a map of Iraq. Streaks of red paint have been dripped down from the north, symbolising the blood of Iraq's people.

In southern Iraq’s Basra, the main testing centre is at Al-Zubair General Hospital, about 22 km away from the city centre. The test costs 50,000 Iraqi dinars ($35).