Basra residents have relaunched a constitutional campaign for regional status, citing economic neglect, historical precedent, ...

Basra’s provincial leadership has begun formally mobilizing political support for an autonomy push, with council members ...

Iraq plans to start a stalled project to construct a railway connecting its southern areas with neighboring Iran.

Basra authorities arrested 17 people following the harassment of a teenage girl on the Basra Corniche during New Year’s Eve ...

Iraqi start-up carrier Basra Airlines has been granted an air operator's certificate by the country's civil aviation ...

Basra Airlines has been formally granted the Iraqi Air Operator Certificate (AOC), making it a fully authorized national ...

The story of Basra is a tale of two cities, the town most people live in and the special inner city built for Saddam Hussein. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports from Iraq's second largest city. After ...

CD shops sell love songs again. Some women emerge from their homes without veils, and alcohol sellers are coming out of hiding in the southern city of Basra — where religious vigilantes have long ...

Basra, Iraq, is known as "the bride of the gulf" after its life-supporting fertile lands, and building vertically is one way to protect those lands. The planned Bride vertical city does just that.