BASRA, Iraq – The brackish water pouring from the taps of homes in Basra has caused stomach ailments and skin rashes for thousands in the southern Iraqi city once famous for its network of freshwater ...

US fighter planes and helicopter gunships struck the southern Iraqi city of Basra and the teeming slums of Baghdad’s Sadr City with bombs and missiles Friday as the offensive launched by Iraqi puppet ...

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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 ...

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BASRA, Iraq - Hundreds of British troops and dozens of tanks and armored fighting vehicles pushed into the center of Basra on Sunday, sending Iraqi military and Baath Party officials fleeing but also ...

British military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Ronnie McCourt told Reuters, "A couple of thousand Iraqi civilians trying to get out of Basra to the north and west are being fired on by paramilitaries ...

Police Col. Nouri Jaffar Fayadh has more than 40 patrols on the streets of Basra. He says violence has dropped more than 90 percent since government troops regained control of Basra in March. Actress ...

BAGHDAD – Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the ...