Iraq has awarded 13 projects worth $862 million in Basra within a post-war development plan for the Southern oil-rich city, an official was quoted on Thursday as saying. The Basra Investment ...

On top of that, Basra and the rest of southern Iraq have historically been ignored and underdeveloped by the government. “Basra has been on the receiving end of a ton of bad government ...

BASRA, Iraq, July 13 (Reuters ... only four authorised fish farms continued to work this year, as opposed to 15 in 2020. "This water is green, dirty and polluted. No fish can live in this ...

(CNN) -- A move is afoot to make the oil-rich province of Basra a more potent political and economic power in Iraq. Lawmakers have started a drive that would give the Shiite-dominated province the ...

Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727, the 11-meter ...

Security officials said the clashes, which carried on into the early hours of Thursday, took place in the centre of Basra, Iraq’s main oil-producing hub. “The gunfire exchange between the two ...