BAGHDAD — Tensions continued to simmer Wednesday between local Iraqi officials and British troops in the Shiite-dominated southern city of Basra, where the British this week arrested 14 law ...
An Iraqi stringer for NPR describes an assassination he witnessed in Basra recently. There is a car in Basra feared by all the people in the city. We call the car "Bata" -- in English it is "Swan." ...
Three years after the invasion of Iraq, one of its largest cities is beset by disappointment and fear. Residents of Basra say they feel forgotten by their own political leaders and embittered by ...
BASRA, Iraq -- In a region long insulated from the rampant unrest in Iraq, relations between British forces and local leaders have deteriorated sharply in recent weeks as violence has escalated in and ...
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki on Wednesday declared a monthlong state of emergency in the southern oil hub of Basra, saying he would deploy an army division to quell sectarian and ...
Monte Morin © Stars and StripesBasra, Iraq, May, 2006: British army soldiers patrol a defunct port area in Basra. Great Britain had about 8,000 military personnel in ...
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