Iraqi fighter Iyad Al-Badr secures a major Muay Thai championship in Bangkok, achieving a knockout victory and raising Iraq’s ...

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

A family-led initiative brings renewed dignity to a World War veteran’s resting place at Basra War Cemetery BASRA, ...

The British may be getting some help from within Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. "I do understand that the sheer population there attempted to attack the ruling party," said Group Capt. Al Lockwood ...

Basra, Iraq, is known as "the bride of the gulf" after its life-supporting fertile lands, and building vertically is one way to protect those lands. The planned Bride vertical city does just that.

CD shops sell love songs again. Some women emerge from their homes without veils, and alcohol sellers are coming out of hiding in the southern city of Basra — where religious vigilantes have long ...

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Wednesday as demonstrators took to the streets for a third day in the southern city of Basra, activists said. One person died and 21 others ...

Basra is enjoying a comeback after suffering through three major wars. These days, Iraqis in the oil-rich southern province are enjoying something close to a normal life. Basrawis say the boom is long ...

On Friday morning, the protests in Basra continued. The day was young, and it was already a scalding 43 degrees centigrade (109 degrees Fahrenheit). By the afternoon it was even hotter. The protests ...