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Around 900 children in Iraq's Basra took part in an Iftar meal on Friday (March 21), organized by the Baraem Al-Narjis Foundation and the Safa Humanitarian Charity Association for orphans.

In Basra, police said militiamen broke into ... President Bush pledged American aid to restore the mosque. "The terrorists in Iraq have again proven that they are enemies of all faiths and of ...

In 2003, Human Rights Watch researchers traveled to southern Iraq to investigate the March ... The resulting report, Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides evidence that ...