Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727, the 11-meter ...

He travelled down the Persian Gulf from Basra to Bahrain, and from there to the little port of Oqair, on the Arabian coast; there he met camels, sent down for him by the ruler of eastern Arabia ...

A mangrove-planting project has been launched as a nature-based solution to combat coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion and pollution — threats that not only endanger Basra’s coastline but ...

In the Dhi Qar and Basra provinces, health authorities reported ... Azzam Alwash, head of the Nature Iraq non-profit organisation, told APthat “climate change alone doesn’t give the whole ...

In blistering 50 °C heat in Basra, it was clear that climate change is our here and now. As United Nations secretary-general António Guterres said in July, the era of ‘global boiling’ has ...

Looting is continuing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, despite efforts to re-establish law and order. UK troops, who took control of the city from Iraqi forces, are also concerned people could be ...

BASRA, Iraq — What happens when the land dries up? The world is facing this question; Iraq is already learning the answers. First the farmers and the fishermen try to stay. Then, one by one ...

BASRA, Iraq, July 13 (Reuters) - Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of their ...

In “Happy,” by Celina Baljeet Basra, a Punjabi farmer with big dreams finds more challenges than opportunity after he emigrates to Europe. By Kathryn Ma When you purchase an independently ...

A series of bomb attacks in the Basra area of southern Iraq has killed at least 68 people and injured many more. The first blasts - apparently suicide bombings - occurred outside three police stations ...