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The US has said it will close its consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, blaming increasing threats from Iran and Iranian-backed forces. In a statement, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ...

Former Team India spinner Harbhajan Singh was recently spotted at the Mumbai airport alongside his wife Geeta Basra, a Bollywood actress.

The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that one Iraqi official responsible for the gross human rights violations in that campaign is Ali Hasan ...

TotalEnergies, Basra Oil Company, and QatarEnergy have commenced work on a $250m project to capture gas from the Ratawi oil field in the Basra region of southern Iraq. The ArtawiGas25 facility ...