Source: Wikimedia Commons. The Iraqi district of Basra, apart from being extremely oil-rich, is the country's only gateway to the sea, and it borders three countries: Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

R-Zero Water Treatment Plant, Basra, 2020. Photo: Azhar Al-Rubaie. In summer 2018 protests erupted in Basra amidst a water contamination crisis, with over 100,000 admitted to hospital by the end of ...

A female human rights activist has been shot dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, which has seen violent anti-government protests in recent weeks. Video posted online appears to show an ...

A female political activist has been shot dead in the Iraqi city of Basra, in the third such attack in a week. Riham Yaqoob, a doctor who led local anti-government protests, was killed by ...

The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that one Iraqi official responsible for the gross human rights violations in that campaign is Ali Hasan ...

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