The Desert Rats have stormed into the centre of Basra to liberate the city. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in Challenger tanks, along with the Black Watch in armoured vehicles and the Royal ...

Large swathes of Iraq's second city are under the control of British troops after the Desert Rats and Royal Marines stormed into Basra. One British soldier was killed during the attack ...

Local residents say the government is corrupt and has allowed infrastructure to virtually collapse in the region that generates much of Iraq's oil wealth. The government says it is trying to ...

In 2003, Human Rights Watch researchers traveled to southern Iraq to investigate the March ... The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that ...

The Governorate Council building in the city was set alight Protesters have attacked government and other key buildings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra as ... much of Iraq's oil wealth.