The Governorate Council building in the city was set alight Protesters have attacked government and other key buildings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra as ... much of Iraq's oil wealth.

Local residents say the government is corrupt and has allowed infrastructure to virtually collapse in the region that generates much of Iraq's oil wealth. The government says it is trying to ...

In 2003, Human Rights Watch researchers traveled to southern Iraq to investigate the March ... The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that ...