Southern Iraq is home to Basra, the third largest city in the country, and one of the centers of the nation's oil wealth. Once hailed as a success story, the situation has deteriorated into militia violence after the 2005 elections. David Enders has more on the deep decline of Southern Iraq as British troops prepare to leave.

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"Iraq: Death of a Nation" examines how the U.S. invasion and occupation created a multi-faceted civil war in which the U.S. is now actively arming multiple factions. Last summer, the project focused on how Iraq's refugee crisis was created by the invasion and the fighting that has followed.
April 9, 2010 / Untold Stories
David Enders
David Enders, for the Pulitzer Center