met at the Shatt al-Arab River near Basra, creating vast marshlands in Iraq and Iran. Seasonal flooding transformed the region into an interconnected network of wetlands. Life in these remote ...

The public health emergency in Basra was only one manifestation of a water supply crisis in the governorate, which has also seen a collapse in agricultural yields as a result of increased water ...

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 ...

Employees inspect the Basra Natural Gas Liquids project built by China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation in Basra, Iraq, in December. DUAN MINFU/XINHUA BASRA — Hussein takes a ...