Basra in a sentence

BASRA: Iraqi police fired in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to storm a government building in Basra and demonstrated near an oil field, police said, wounding 48 people in unrest over poor services that has swept southern cities.

Iran's plan was for three assaults: a diversionary attack near Basra, the main offensive, and another diversionary attack using Iranian armor in the north to have Iraqi heavy armor diverted away from Basra.

The goal of this new major offensive was the capture of Basra-Baghdad Highway, cutting off of Basra from Baghdad and setting the stage for an eventual attack upon the city.

Iraq Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani stressed the importance of the event after a visit to Basra to review facilities in December when he called on organizers to present Iraq in the best possible light.

Major Collicut, who now provides personal safety security advice, reflects on the comments of civilians in Basra when he returned to work for the oil industry in the city a decade on from the invasion.

Rumaila is operated by Rumaila Operating Organisation which is a consortium of organisations including Basra Energy Company - a partnership between BP and PetroChina.

The 25th Arabian Gulf Cup 2023 kicked off in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

The website Hot Cities ranked southern Iraq’s Basra as the hottest city in the world on Wednesday, with a temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius).

We were already informed today at the meeting with the delegations that the first direct flight between our capitals already started, and in the coming weeks probably we will have direct flights to Kirkuk, to Erbil, and to Basra.

Dr Basra added that the court felt a Newton hearing to discuss the basis of plea was not necessary because of the “young age” of the boys and the fact they were first-time offenders who had “pleaded guilty on the first possible occasion”.

Jay Basra, who describes himself as Punjabi-British, was announced as the Mid-Ulster candidate in early May.

Ulster Unionist Westminster candidate for Mid Ulster Jay Basra says he has received racist abuse and threats on social media, primarily X (formerly Twitter).

A father walks with his child along a deserted street during a curfew imposed as a measure to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus in Iraq’s southern city of Basra on March 21, 2020.

An Iraqi worker walks in front of an oil refinery in North Rumaila oilfield in Basra in January 2009.

A spokesman for BP, which operates the giant Rumaila oil field near Basra, declined to comment.

As the marshes dry up, livestock deaths cause increasing economic losses in Basra, Missan and Thi Qar, the three areas covered in the report.

Dozens of U.S. oil workers prepare to leave Iraq after air strikeDozens of U.S. citizens working for foreign oil companies in the southern Iraqi oil city of Basra were preparing to leave the country on Friday, Iraq's Oil.

Girls queue for the toilets in Faihaa school in Basra.

Iraqi students march during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of Basra on Jan.

Much of Mr. al-Muhandis’s history remains murky, including his exact age: He would have been about 66 or 67 at the time of his death, according to the United States government, which has said he was born in 1953 in Basra, Iraq.