A bad date on the show led Gurki Basra to get close to the director and cinematographer When Gurki Basra appeared on the first season of Netflix's Dating Around, her episode ended without the fashion ...

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.

The Iraqi State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) announced on Wednesday that it has sold limited quantities of oil ...

Iraq plans to award a multibillion-dollar project to build an oil pipeline to a group of Chinese companies. The long-mooted Basra-Haditha pipeline would carry crude to Turkey, Syria and Jordan – and ...

The British may be getting some help from within Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. "I do understand that the sheer population there attempted to attack the ruling party," said Group Capt. Al Lockwood ...

"The revolution will continue," the man shouted into the camera, "it will continue until our demands are met!" On Friday morning, the protests in Basra continued. The day was young, and it was already ...

A clothing store owner defiantly waves a cigarette in the air, saying he was not allowed to smoke when Shiite militias were in control. Then he quietly adds: "Don't let them know I said they were bad.

Basra, in southern Iraq, contains much of the country’s oil wealth -- yet residents there are struggling just to survive. The city lacks basic services like clean water and reliable electricity, and ...

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 ...

Freed last year from the grip of militias, Basra has emerged as the main battleground for rival Shiites in elections for control of the oil-rich south — a race that will test the power of religious ...

On Friday morning, the protests in Basra continued. The day was young, and it was already a scalding 43 degrees centigrade (109 degrees Fahrenheit). By the afternoon it was even hotter. The protests ...