Until the middle 1990s, when the Iraqi government began extensive drainage works that destroyed much of their traditional homeland, the Marsh Arabs inhabited much of the area extending southward from Kut on the Tigris River and Hilla on the Euphrates...

The Marsh Arabs (Arabic,عرب الأهوار Arabs of Al-ahwar ) are the inhabitants of the lowlands of southern Iraq, also known as Mesopotamia, whose families have lived in the area for thousands of years. The marshlands, known as the...

MASS poisoning has been added to Saddam Hussein's campaign of persecution against the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq, according to a British governmental mission just returned from the region. A team from the Overseas Development Administration (ODA), the first official aid organisation to...

QAL'AH SALAH, Iraq - Something strange has surfaced in Iraq's once fertile southern marshlands: water. And much of it comes courtesy of Saddam Hussein, the very man who drained the region in the first place. "I haven't drunk from the marsh for a...

Death in war is rarely even dramatic in its circumstances. The sudden blast, here not there; lingering pain, too short to be taken home, but long enough to be agony. What nobility there is comes from the cause, the choice that the soldier has made....

Death in war is rarely even dramatic in its circumstances. The sudden blast, here not there; lingering pain, too short to be taken home, but long enough to be agony. What nobility there is comes from the cause, the choice that the soldier has made....