The INSS revealed that it completed a major security operation, which dismantled a criminal network specializing in illicit ...

Oil Undersecretary Ezzat Saber Ismail announced a plan to increase Basra Gas Company production to 1,400 mmscfd by 2028 and ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s electoral body on Thursday said it has begun issuing the “official signature forms” required ...

BAGHDAD — British troops on Wednesday handed over their last base in the southern city of Basra, withdrawing to an airport outside the city and leaving it to Shiite Muslim political parties and ...

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — A motorcycle rigged with explosives went off in the center of Iraq's southern city of Basra on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding four others, according to Iraqi ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted on Tuesday in the southern oil city of Basra where Iraqi security forces launched a major operation at dawn against powerful militias, military officials ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi soldiers rolled through a Shiite militia stronghold in Basra on Wednesday, drawing scattered bombs and bullets that wounded a camera operator for a U.S.-funded TV station and narrowly ...

The Iraqi army soldiers walked with confidence into this city's notorious Five Miles neighborhood. Shiite militiamen once greeted them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Now, smiling ...

(Adds prime minister's statement, UK statement) By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq, March 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister called for an investigation into a raid by Iraqi and British forces in Basra on ...

British forces battled more than 1,000 die-hard Iraqi loyalists for control of Basra on Wednesday, coming to the defense of inhabitants who rose up against President Saddam Hussein in the streets of ...

British military forces are set to formally hand control of Basra to the Iraqi. It will be mostly ceremonial, since Iraqi soldiers and police effectively took control of the province months ago.

Iraqi forces and militia loyal to Shiite cleric battle overnight and on Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City area. In the southern city of Basra, Iraqi forces pushed into a Sadrist stronghold. This is ...