Marshlands in southern Iraq are drying up due to worsening drought and declining groundwater levels, a local official warned, as authorities scramble to mitigate the crisis that has already displaced ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor.

Dhi Qar Oil Company announced the implementation of an integrated production plan to develop three oil fields in the southern ...

Many descendants of those enslaved people now live in the southern port city of Basra in modern-day Iraq.