Photos show daily life in Iraq's Basra near Iranian border as war slows trade

In Basra, southern Iraq, daily routines go on under the weight of the Iran war, as workers unload cargo at Umm Qasr Port and operations slow at the nearby Zubair oil field. At the Shalamcheh border ...
Times Union

For people of Basra, fear has a name: 'the Duck' / A onetime oasis of relative calm now on brink of collapse

2006-10-19 04:00:00 PDT Basra, Iraq-- On the streets of Basra, in southern Iraq, one thing nobody wants to see is "the Duck." That's the nickname for a slightly battered, cream colored Toyota Crown, a ...
Al-Monitor

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) -Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq's mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the ...
Independent Record

Hundreds of Iraqis welcome soldiers to Basra

BASRA, Iraq -- British forces took control of the heart of Basra on Monday, met by few pockets of resistance and greeted by hundreds of people who shook their hands and welcomed them to Iraq's ...
Reuters

FEATURE-Voters want people, not parties in Iraq's Basra

BASRA, Iraq, Dec 9 (Reuters) - For the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis could be seeing election candidates kissing babies and canvassing neighbours when a new polling system comes ...