The Al Hammar Marsh is a 1,100-square-mile freshwater sea between the southern Iraqi cities of An Nasiriyah and Basra. Peter van Agtmael/Polaris, www.polarisimages.com Saddam's retributions after ...

But the stakes stretch far beyond Basra’s shoreline: the health of Iraq’s southern marshlands, including the fragile Mesopotamian Marshes, may depend on the survival of these coastal trees.

AFP launches its 2nd Iraq photo exhibition at the French Institute, Baghdad (May 3-7), showcasing 37 impactful images of Iraq ...

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 ...

Baghdad: Iraq has announced the discovery of an ancient city dating back to the Abbasid era in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, estimated to be more than 1,200 years old. Director of the Basra ...

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 ...