Authorities in Iraq have arrested 17 people after a video of men pushing a screaming woman into a car during New Year’s Eve ...

Basra residents have relaunched a constitutional campaign for regional status, citing economic neglect, historical precedent, ...

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 ...

Oil Undersecretary Ezzat Saber Ismail announced a plan to increase Basra Gas Company production to 1,400 mmscfd by 2028 and ...

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 ...

Iraqi start-up carrier Basra Airlines has been granted an air operator's certificate by the country's civil aviation ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted on Tuesday in the southern oil city of Basra where Iraqi security forces launched a major operation at dawn against powerful militias, military officials ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD — British troops on Wednesday handed over their last base in the southern city of Basra, withdrawing to an airport outside the city and leaving it to Shiite Muslim political parties and ...

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.

(Adds prime minister's statement, UK statement) By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq, March 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister called for an investigation into a raid by Iraqi and British forces in Basra on ...