BASRA, Iraq — What happens when the land dries up ... his fingers as he nodded toward a pile of metal carcasses on the river shore. “These boats are how we’re making money now,” he ...

Baghdad and Basra, has been choked by dams, most of them upstream in Turkey, and falling rainfall. An AFP video journalist travelled along the river's 1,500-kilometre (900-mile) course through Iraq, ...

A decision by Iraqi officials to demolish a 300-year-old religious spire and tourist attraction in the city of Basra has prompted outcries from the local community. For three centuries, the al ...