Province sits on about 70 per cent of country's oil reserves ...

BASRA, Iraq -- British forces took control of the heart of Basra on Monday, met by few pockets of resistance and greeted by hundreds of people who shook their hands and welcomed them to Iraq's ...

Newly elected Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi urged armed factions in the country to work “under the umbrella of the state ...

(Recasts with reported Blair announcement on withdrawal) By Peter Graff and Deborah Haynes LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected to announce on Wednesday that Britain will ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqis had spirited the British prisoners away just as British armor crashed into the prison compound in the southern city of Basra. After smashing through the exterior prison wall, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi government said yesterday that it was reassigning the top military and police commanders in the southern city of Basra, three weeks after a crackdown on Shiite militias there ...

US dollar exchange rates against the Iraqi dinar experienced mixed movements across major domestic trading hubs on Sunday ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BASRA, Iraq (AP) — For many Iraqis, the ...

BASRA, Iraq, Aug. 9 -- British troops put on riot gear and fired into the air today as Iraqi anger over fuel and power shortages boiled over into stone-throwing and torching of vehicles in Basra, ...