Now Friends of Basra Museum, a charity set up to realise the project, has applied for more funding from the British Council to transform the other rooms of the palace. "You wouldn't believe the ...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi soldiers hoisted the nation’s flag over the Basra palace compound today after British troops withdrew from their last garrison in the city, a move that will hand control to an Iraqi ...

Today, the Basra Palace compound is eerily quiet. A cold winter's wind whips off the Shatt al-Arab waterway, and howls around the marbled palace, almost drowning out the cry of the sea-birds soaring ...

Most of the attacks do little harm, but six soldiers were injured in shelling recently at Basra palace. Iraq’s Shiite heartland, which bore the brunt of the 1980-88 war with Iran and Saddam ...

It's in Basra in southern Iraq in the palace of a dictator, and that is symbolic, says the director of the Basra museum, Qahtan al-Abeed. We reached him by Skype. Welcome to the program.

British troops have left Basra Palace in the south of Iraq, ending the permanent presence of the Army in the city. The British army has almost completed withdrawing from its last remaining base in ...

Iraqi police said they thwarted the attempt. For residents, the convoys of military trucks and helicopters going to and from the base in Basra Palace, built for Saddam Hussein, signal the ...

Their families' plea came as the British officer in charge of the withdrawal of British troops from the Basra Palace this week claimed that Britain has been engaged in a proxy war with Iran in the ...

A British military commander in Iraq has said his forces could have withdrawn from Basra Palace five months ago if the Americans had not issued a plea for them to stay. Brigadier James Bashall ...

Defence ministry insiders confirmed last night that Britain plans to stick to its timetable to pull out of its stronghold at Basra Palace "within days or weeks", despite misgivings from US ...

Now Friends of Basra Museum, a charity set up to realise the project, has applied for more funding from the British Council to transform the other rooms of the palace. "You wouldn't believe the ...