R-Zero Water Treatment Plant, Basra, 2020. Photo: Azhar Al-Rubaie. In summer 2018 protests erupted in Basra amidst a water contamination crisis, with over 100,000 admitted to hospital by the end of ...

Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A landmine explosion in Iraq’s southern oil-rich Basra province killed three farmers from a single family and injured an additional two ...

The US has said it will close its consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, blaming increasing threats from Iran and Iranian-backed forces. In a statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...

The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that one Iraqi official responsible for the gross human rights violations in that campaign is Ali Hasan ...