Basra
Photo shows a masked Somali pirate, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP)
In this photo taken Monday, April 30, 2009, an Iraqi coast guard boat patrols in the Gulf near Basra, 550 kilometers (341 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP)
An injured person receiving treatment at a hospital in Basra. (Photo: Iraqi Media)
Photo of the bus after the accident. (Photo: Handed to Kurdistan24)
Protesters in the city of Basra. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
potable water pipes mix with sewage at garbage dump in Basra, Iraq. (AP)
An aerial view shows the Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr bridge on a foggy morning in Basra, on Jan. 27, 2023. (AFP)
A map of Iraq surrounded by symbols representing drugs. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
This aerial photo shows moored boats and ferries in Shatt al-Arab waterway near Basra, Iraq. (Photo: AP)
Two water tankers in Basra during water distribution or transfer operation amid water shortage. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi man walking down a marketplace in Basra. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An Iraqi youth rides his bicycle near a flare stack in the Rumaila oil field near Iraq's southern port city of Basra on May 5, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
A rundown neighborhood in Basra, reflecting the city’s deepening poverty. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Graduates of engineering and petroleum fields protest in Basra. (Photo: Iraqi Media)
Plastic waste clogs a tributary canal off the Shatt al-Arab in Basra, southern Iraq, June 4, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
pedestrian struggles to breathe as he walks along the side of a road through low visibility conditions due to a massive dust storm in Iraq's central city of Najaf on April 14, 2025. (Photo: AFP)