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Once Iraq’s Venice, Basra’s waters have now turned deadly

BASRA: Once dubbed the “Venice of the Middle East” for its canals, Iraq’s crumbling port city of Basra is slowly dying of thirst. Crisscrossed waterways...

In Iraq minefields, an old war leaves a menacing legacy

Hundreds of villagers have lost limbs to mines and unexploded ordnance from the Iraq-Iran war, including the village better known as al Bitran which means “the amputees” in the local dialect.
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