Basra in southern Iraq would be the perfect place to restore it through tourism. Economic opportunity was stripped from the Iraqi people at the onset of the war.

Emirates Airlines has announced an extension of its suspension of flights to Baghdad and Basra until Monday, June 30, due to ...

Iraq's Ministry of Transport & Iraqi Airways launch an evacuation plan via Basra Airport to bring back stranded citizens, ...

Iraq wants to diversify its economy away from oil and toward tourism. Although Western travelers have made headlines in once-dangerous Iraq of late, it's probably Arab tourists who will boost ...

An aerial photo shows archaeologists working at an archaeological site where researchers dated some of the massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that ...

Climate migrants flee Iraq’s parched rural south, but cities offer no refuge. As hotter, more-crowded cities become a warming world’s future, Basra shows the perils of a lack of preparedness ...

Its farming sector has been devastated while its once famous tourism industry has floundered. Some 40% of Basra’s estimated population of 1.4 million lives in poverty, while unemployment is soaring.

BASRA, Mar 01, 2009 (AFP) - This year should be oil-rich Basra's best in decades, with foreign companies queuing up to invest there as long as Iraq's government lets them, the province's ...

A stampede outside a soccer stadium in the southern Iraqi city of Basra killed at least one person on Thursday after fans who had been sold fake tickets for a prestigious regional tournament ...

On the other hand, the prosperity of pilgrimage trips, as well as the growth and development of tourism, is the other advantage of completing the Shalamcheh-Basra railway, while a significant ...

Exact numbers are hard to come by because of the different ways visitor numbers are collected in Iraq but last year tourism authorities said 400,000 internationals had come for cultural or leisure ...