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Water buffaloes swim near the Nihran Bin Omar oil field north of Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. In the wake of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and toppling of Saddam Hussein, foreign investors flocked to the country's abundant oil fields and contracts were doled out, filling Iraqi state coffers. The new constitution drafted in 2005 states that the country's oil wealth belongs to the Iraqi people. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Corruption, deep disparity mark Iraq’s oil legacy post-2003

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019 photo, rapper Ahmed Chayeb, better known by his stage name Mr. Guti, records on his computer, at his home in the southern port city of Bqasra, Iraq. Chayeb raps about anger and disillusionment in his hometown of Basra, which saw riots last summer over failing services and soaring unemployment. Chayeb says his generation is fed up with the false piety of politicians and religious authorities who preach about faith and duty but have left Basra to fall apart. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi rapper gives angry youth in city of Basra music outlet

By NABIL AL-JURANI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Iraqi official says U.S. wrong to blame Iran for rocket attacks on American consulate

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Pentagon offers military support in U.S. Consulate evacuation in Iraq

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Demonstrators wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration demanding better public services and jobs in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

U.S. consulate in Iraq comes under rocket attack

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

People gather at the scene of the assassination of Iraqi activist Soad al-Ali, who has been involved in organizing protests demanding better services in the city, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. A police official said masked gunmen shot dead al-Ali, a mother of four, outside a supermarket. The gunmen fled the scene after shooting at her and her husband in their car. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi activist shot dead in tense southern city of Basra

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Protesters storm and burn the Basra Government building during a demonstration demanding better public services and jobs in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Angry protesters stormed the Iranian consulate in the southern city of Basra Friday, setting a fire inside as part of ongoing demonstrations that have turned deadly in the past few days, a security official and eyewitnesses said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraq’s embattled PM visits Basra after week-long protest

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, file photo, mourners chant anti government slogans while carrying the coffin of Abdul Salam Fathi, a protester whose family said he was killed in a protest, during his funeral in Basra, Iraq. With brackish water pouring from the taps, failing city services and soaring unemployment, the southern Iraqi city of Basra has seen weeks of violent protests in the streets of the country's oil-exporting capital. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)

Iraqi city of Basra seethes over water crisis, unemployment

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Security forces patrol in Basra, Iraq, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018. Iraqi security forces deployed on the streets of Basra on Saturday, a day after protesters in the southern city stormed the Iranian consulate and torched government buildings in violence that rocked the oil-exporting Shiite heartland and sparked alarm across a conflict-weary country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Calm returns to Iraq’s Basra after week of violent protests

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Protesters trample a portrait of Iran's supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the storming and burning the Iranian consulate in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Hundreds of angry protesters in Basra took to the streets on Thursday night. Some clashed with security forces, lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to a government building as well as the offices of Shiite militias. At least three people were shot dead in confrontations with security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

The Latest: Security forces deploy in Iraq’s city of Basra

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Protesters storm and burn the Iranian consulate building in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. Hundreds of angry protesters in Basra took to the streets on Thursday night. Some clashed with security forces, lobbing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to a government building as well as the offices of Shiite militias. At least three people were shot dead in confrontations with security forces. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi protesters set fire to Iran consulate in southern city

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

A man holds a national flag while protesters burn the municipal complex during protests demanding better public services and jobs in Basra, 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi protesters set fire to provincial government building

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Protesters set a tire on fire in front of the provincial council building during protests demanding better public services and jobs, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition on hundreds of protesters. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi PM orders probe into bloody Basra protests

Associated Press

Mourners carry the Iraqi flag-draped coffin of Mekki Yasser, a protester whose family and activists said he was killed when he participated in a protest last night, during his funeral on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018, in Basra, about 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Iraqi forces kill 3 protesters in southern city of Basra

By NABIL AL-JURANI - Associated Press

Iraqi Muslims pray at a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq opens new antiquities museum in Basra

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Iraqi anti-government protesters throw stones at riot police during a demonstration in Baghdad Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. Thousands marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq on Friday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

11 killed as Iraqis protest in ‘Day of Rage’

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press