We trace the Battle of Basra from its role as Iraq’s southern gateway to the moment British armor rolled into a city already ...

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

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 ...

The story of Basra is a tale of two cities, the town most people live in and the special inner city built for Saddam Hussein. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports from Iraq's second largest city. After ...

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 ...

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.

On the off-chance that you're as confused as I am, the Baltimore Sun has a fairly illuminating interview with Anthony Cordesman about the violence that's unfolding in southern Iraq: Much of the ...

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 ...