Report from Basra
Iraqi suicide bomber targets home of Iraqi police commissioner who was in US detention
BAGHDAD (AP) _ A suicide bomber blew herself up Monday among police officers who were celebrating the release of a comrade from U.S. custody, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said. Separate bombings in Iraq killed 13 other people.
ANALYSIS: REPORT FROM BASRA
Radical roots take hold in southern Iraq
While the United States battles Sunni extremists in northern Iraq, different but potentially more enduring Islamic radicals - many with close ties to Iran - have been allowed to take root in the South.
Bloody confrontation in Basra
The British army battled Iraqi forces they trained themselves yesterday as anti-British violence broke out in Basra, the country's second-largest city.
REPORT FROM BASRA
In new Iraq, shaken faith
For Yousef Lyon and other Christians in Basra, the downfall of Saddam Hussein has meant a terrible loss of religious freedom.
REPORT FROM BASRA
Deadly place for Shias
The professor sat at his computer, insistently pulling up pictures of Basra as the gem it was 30 years and four wars ago. He seemed fixated on the past, deflecting questions about the present and the future.
REPORTS FROM BASRA
Waiting for better times in Basra
It was called the Venice of the Middle East for its beautiful canals, an ancient port romanticized as home to Sinbad the Sailor in "Arabian Nights." Nine million stately date palms lined its riverfront and graced its fields. One of the world's largest pools of oil lies beneath its sands.
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