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The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and cultural authorities who condemned ...
Six primary-school students were killed and 14 others were injured when a refrigerator truck veered into a group of children in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry ...
Basra airport was attacked with rockets on Saturday after another night of protests against Iraq's political elite.
According to the Governor of the Basra Governorate, Mohammed al-Waili, the British had used "more than ten tanks backed by helicopters" to carry out the raid. The assault on the prison was spearheaded by Warrior IFV's and Challenger 2 tanks breaking down the walls and destroying cars and flimsy buildings. [6]
Former United States President Barack Obama made a significant announcement on October 21, revealing that all American military personnel would be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year. This decision, which follows a 2008 security pact, has far-reaching implications for the region and marks a major shift in the United States' involvement ...
The siege of Basra was initiated by the Mahdi Army (Jaysh al-Mahdi) to capture the city of Basra in 2007. Following the reported major failure of the coalition forces, whose purpose was to stabilise Basra and prepare it for the turning over of security to Iraqi government forces, the city was overrun by insurgent forces from three different Iraqi factions including the Mahdi Army, and the ...
Dancon/Irak was established on 21 March 2003, [2] and activated on 23 April of the same year. [3] Dancon's units were subordinate to Multi-National Division (South East) ("MND (SE)"), which is responsible for the southern provinces of Al Basrah, Maysan, Dhi Qar and Al Muthanna in Iraq.
The Basra Operations Command is an organisation of the Government of Iraq which coordinates both Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior security forces in Basra Governorate. It was established in August 2007, [ 1 ] and quickly became involved in the Battle of Basra (2008) ("Operation Charge of the Knights") against the Shia Jaysh al ...