Basra after the British: division and despair in Iraq's oil boomtown

Basra’s six-year period of British control following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein will come under scrutiny with the release of the Chilcot report. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad finds a city ‘run by mafias’ and still struggling with the legacy of war.

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