by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 20, 2017 | Middle East
Terror group ISIS on Saturday claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that ravaged Baghdad and southern Iraq by taking the lives of over 30 people and wounding dozens, said local officials. The bombings, which hit Iraq the previous night, came as Iraqi forces...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2017 | Middle East
Baghdad – Kata’ib Hezbollah Secretary General Bassam al-Safi, based in the Iraqi city of Basra, was shot dead Wednesday evening. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the assassination was staged by a dicey group aiming to provoke national strife....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 17, 2016 | Middle East
Erbil, Washington – The visit of Iraqi former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the south of Iraq and Basra drew protests and continued to trigger reactions, threatening of a second “Sawlat al-Fursan” similar to that conducted by Maliki in 2008 when he was a...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 8, 2016 | Middle East
Basra-Hundreds of Iraqis from the southern district of Zubair held a protest on Sunday on a road leading to oil fields to ask for job opportunities. The protesters tried to block access to some oil fields in the area managed by UK’s British Petroleum and Italian oil...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 10, 2016 | Middle East
Basra – Basra governorate suffers from Iranian occupation to all its political, social, and security institutions given there are hundreds of centers for “charitable” purposes. Occupation of Basra, 560 Km south of Baghdad, has been set since Khomeini’s reign in Iran....
