Aircraft broker Jetcraft Commercial continues to strengthen its presence in the Middle East with the delivery of two ...

BAGHDAD — British troops on Wednesday handed over their last base in the southern city of Basra, withdrawing to an airport outside the city and leaving it to Shiite Muslim political parties and ...

British military forces are set to formally hand control of Basra to the Iraqi. It will be mostly ceremonial, since Iraqi soldiers and police effectively took control of the province months ago.

The Iraqi army soldiers walked with confidence into this city's notorious Five Miles neighborhood. Shiite militiamen once greeted them with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Now, smiling ...

An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said.An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Heavy fighting erupted on Tuesday in the southern oil city of Basra where Iraqi security forces launched a major operation at dawn against powerful militias, military officials ...

(Adds prime minister's statement, UK statement) By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq, March 4 (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister called for an investigation into a raid by Iraqi and British forces in Basra on ...

Iraqi forces and militia loyal to Shiite cleric battle overnight and on Saturday in Baghdad's Sadr City area. In the southern city of Basra, Iraqi forces pushed into a Sadrist stronghold. This is ...

British forces at the gates of Basra waged fierce battles with more than 1,000 Iraqi militia fighters, supporting what they said appeared to be civilian unrest developing against Saddam Hussein in the ...

British forces battled more than 1,000 die-hard Iraqi loyalists for control of Basra on Wednesday, coming to the defense of inhabitants who rose up against President Saddam Hussein in the streets of ...

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — A motorcycle rigged with explosives went off in the center of Iraq's southern city of Basra on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding four others, according to Iraqi ...