The skirmish -- in which the Iraqis made use of human shields, mobile weapons and panic -- underscored the problems facing British soldiers as they try to take Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city.

As American troops roll into Baghdad this weekend, the experience of U.S. Marines and British Desert Rats and Royal Marines in Basra and vicinity may well be instructive.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- A suicide car bomber Tuesday attacked a police headquarters in Basra, killing at least three policemen, wounding 20 people and raising fears about security in the oil-rich southern ...

Update On Protests In Basra Unrest in one of Iraq's biggest cities, Basra, has shaken up the country at a time of political instability. Basra is an oil hub, but people are poor and a water crisis ...

Suicide attackers unleashed car bombings against police buildings in Basra, Iraq's biggest Shiite city, Wednesday morning, striking rush-hour crowds and killing at least 68 people, including 16 ...

From Mar. 29 until April 8, 2006, 50 people were killed in Basra -- doctors, teachers, officials and students. Three days later, on April 11, 30 more people were murdered. Most people think that ...

BASRA, Iraq, Nov 3 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb blast targeted a convoy carrying the heads of the Iraqi army and police in southern Iraq on Saturday, but both men were unhurt, the police chief told ...

Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday.

Basra's Mysterious Creatures. By ABC News. July 13, 2007, ... They are also believed to instinctively attack the genitals of larger mammals that are unfortunate enough to disturb them.