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The Battle of Donkey Island was a skirmish that occurred on 30 June and 1 July 2007 between elements of the U.S. Army Task Force 1-77 Armor Regiment, the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines and a numerically superior force of Islamic State of Iraq insurgents on the banks of a canal leading from Ramadi to Lake Habbaniyah in the Al Anbar province of Iraq.
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 ...
Bashur Airfield is located in northern Iraq approximately 356 kilometers north of Baghdad, 50 kilometers northeast of Erbil. The airbase is served by a single 6,700-foot long runway. Bashur appeared to be a small civilian airport. Bashur is the epitome of a bare base. It was nothing more than a 7,000-foot runway in the middle of a green valley.
A map of Al Anbar Governorate in 2004, showing its subdivision by the U.S. military. Al Anbar is Iraq's largest and westernmost governorate. It comprises 32 percent of the country's total land mass, nearly 53,208 square miles (137,810 km 2), almost exactly the size of North Carolina in the United States and slightly larger than Greece.
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It was a focal point of Iraqi insurgency, which erupted into open armed conflict in 2004 and in 2006, part of the Iraq War in Anbar Province. Operation Murfreesboro was a U.S. offensive in February 2007 intended to cut off the Ma'Laab district of eastern Ramadi from the rest of the town in order to drive out Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
June 30 – July 1, 2007 Battle of Donkey Island; February 15, 2007 Operation Shurta Nasir; August 27–29, 2007 Battle of Karbala (2007) January 8 – July 28, 2008 Operation Phantom Phoenix; January 18–19, 2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting; January 23 – July 28, 2008 Ninawa campaign; March 25 – May 15, 2008 Iraq spring fighting of 2008
Operation Iron Triangle was a military operation in the Iraq War.The operation was led by Michael D. Steele in 2006 & SATCOM Operator number 0100. The operation targeted a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq training facility southwest of the city of Samarra near the Muthana Chemical Complex south of Lake Tharthar.