Iraq's prime minister has given gunmen in Basra three days to hand over their weapons.
At the outskirts of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, coalition forces skirmished with Iraqi troops.
Fields, the American funny man, echoes the more recent feelings of many a resident in Basra.
In the south, Shiite rebels controlled major cities such as Karbala, Najaf, and Basra.
The problems in Basra won't end because all we did was cover these problems up.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: She says Basra also saw an upsurge of honor killings for the same simple reason.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Zianet says there is simply no political will to protect women in Basra.
She's just returned to Basra after six months of exile in Iran and Syria.
Hatim al-Bachary is an entrepreneur who is trying to revive Basra's joie de vivre.
Matters came to a head last March, when the Iraqi forces unexpectedly moved to retake Basra.
The British have offered a gun amnesty in an effort to restore order to Basra.
British troops are tightening the ring around Basra in a slow move into the city.
Troops got to the center by pushing across bridges over a canal west of Basra.
The violence that started last week in Basra highlighted the civil conflict among Iraqis.
Basra resident Ahlam Abdulkader said the city was covered by thick smoke from the pipeline fire.
His militia's swift release of a British journalist seized in Basra was another positive sign.
And he has reached out to Sunnis in the southern port city of Basra.
The new Iraqi Navy is now helping protect the vital ports of Basra and Umm Qasr.
The Iraqis fighting in Basra were "irregulars, " lightly armed and few in number, Lockwood said.
It began flying to six new destinations in 2012: Tripoli, Shanghai, Nairobi, Lagos, Ahmedabad and Basra.
In Basra there were quite long periods in 2004 when staff were simply locked down.
British forces late Wednesday and Thursday bombarded Iraqi forces around Basra with long-range artillery.
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight when he was hit by a grenade in Basra.
In mainly Shia Basra, most of the insurgency is aimed at British soldiers rather than Iraqis.
Meanwhile, British military divers are searching a flooded underground bunker near Basra for chemical weapons.
But some Iraqis in Basra cheered as British forces worked to secure the city.
Iraqis from Basra to Erbil have also made great sacrifices to reach this moment.
The same request was expressed to British authorities concerning the Basra area in southern Iraq.
Such a northern attack out of Basra would confront several severely weakened Iraqi Army units.
Senior Basra police officers also told the British that Mr. Majid was killed in the blast.
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