R-Zero Water Treatment Plant, Basra, 2020. Photo: Azhar Al-Rubaie ... Political and Environmental Factors Affecting Southern Iraq’s Water Shortages. LSE Middle East Centre Blog, September 2020.

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.

She spoke of her sorrow after Basra lost millions of palms trees during the Iraq-Iran war, and later because of a lack of water and climate change. “Palm trees were in every corner in Basra ...

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 ...