Latest Basra news in English, including oil, ports, investment, security, public services and southern Iraq developments.
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said a court in Basra has sentenced a defendant to death for the killing of an officer assigned to the city's criminal polโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ A Basra felony court has sentenced a man to death for killing a military officer in the southern Iraqi city. The court ruled that the defendant had shot deaโฆ
BasraTEHRAN, Iran โ TEHRAN โ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it struck the US-operated Azraq Air Base in Jordan with ballistic missiles in the morning, taโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ The Director General of Education in Basra, Abdรผrrezzak Faysal, has accused lawmaker Reca Fazฤฑl al-Hamdi and the lawmaker's son of attacking staff at the diโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ Turkish industrialists and exporters have welcomed a series of agreements signed with Iraq following the July 28 meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ An armed gang broke into a gold shop in the Abu al-Khasib district in southeastern Basra, stealing gold jewelry and cash before fleeing through a hole cut iโฆ
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ Iraq's Oil Ministry announced on Saturday the signing of a tripartite agreement covering crude oil exports of 750,000 barrels per day through Turkey's Ceyโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ Spain's interior minister said Saturday that the number of people killed in the migrant crisis in Ceuta, the Spanish autonomous city on the northwest Africaโฆ
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ US Central Command said it has cleared roughly 30 commercial vessels through an Iranian blockade, conducted approaches on two ships and boarded another twโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ MADRID โ Spainโs Interior Ministry said Friday that approximately 49,000 irregular migrants reached the North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco over a 2โฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ The Basra Governorate declared Sunday a public holiday for all government institutions across the province, citing high temperatures and the need to allow cโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ Footage released on Wednesday shows damage at a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) operations center in Basra following an attack, according to images circulโฆ
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) Basra Operations Command confirmed Wednesday that its headquarters was hit by an airstrike in the earโฆ
BasraRIYADH, Saudi Arabia โ RIYADH โ Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry said its air force has officially joined airstrikes on Iraqi territory in coordination with U.S. Central Cโฆ
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ Iraq's Ministry of Transport said the first river ferry from Iran's Khorramshahr port arrived at the Ashar pier in Basra on Sunday, carrying Iranian pilgrโฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ Israeli forces carried out operations across the West Bank on Monday, carrying out arrests, searching homes and erecting military checkpoints, according to โฆ
BasraBASRA, Iraq โ Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said it stopped six ships in the Strait of Hormuz after issuing warnings and asserted full control over the waโฆ
BasraWASHINGTON, United States โ The United States halted air strikes on Iran on Sunday, pausing military operations in a conflict now approaching its fifth month. Iran has noโฆ
BasraBERLIN, Germany โ A vehicle drove into a crowd at an LGBTฤฐ+ Pride event near the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin on Saturday evening, killing one person and injuring 1โฆ
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq โ Iraq's Council of Ministers, chaired by Prime Minister Ali Fallah al-Zaydi, held its twelfth regular session in Baghdad on Monday evening and approved a sโฆ
