:: Cars could be seen driving through thick fog following the sandstorm Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to the climate crisis, according to the United Nations. Drought and ...

A wheelchair-user is helped across a road in dangerously low visibility in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday. — Hussein FALEH A sandstorm swept through Iraq, filling the air with choking dust ...

Firefighters and hospital staff took about three hours to put out the blaze that engulfed the ward, according to one medic. Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of a maternity ward after a fire ...