Basra Airlines officially begins operations this Thursday, April 23, with its inaugural flight from Baghdad. Discover the new ...

An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said.An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed ...

British military forces are set to formally hand control of Basra to the Iraqi. It will be mostly ceremonial, since Iraqi soldiers and police effectively took control of the province months ago.

Famous Iraqi content creator Mohammed Al-Shammari passed away in a car accident on the highway to Basra on April 20, 2026.

The Iraqi army soldiers walked with confidence into this city's notorious Five Miles neighborhood. Shiite militiamen once greeted them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Now, smiling ...

An Iranian drone strike sparked a fire at a foreign oil company's storage facility in Iraq's Basra, disrupting vital oil production and exports ...

Iraqi forces and militia loyal to Shiite cleric battle overnight and on Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City area. In the southern city of Basra, Iraqi forces pushed into a Sadrist stronghold. This is ...

BASRA, Iraq, April 7 (Reuters) - Protesters stormed the Kuwaiti consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra, police sources said on Tuesday, after a rocket attack fired from the direction of Kuwait killed ...

Duhaa Mayaa, left, and her son Youssef, prepare a Pepsi wash to treat tear gas exposure for injured protesters, in their home in Basra, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. With brackish water pouring from ...

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — A motorcycle rigged with explosives went off in the center of Iraq's southern city of Basra on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding four others, according to Iraqi ...

British forces at the gates of Basra waged fierce battles with more than 1,000 Iraqi militia fighters, supporting what they said appeared to be civilian unrest developing against Saddam Hussein in the ...