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Basra

n. 巴士拉

basra

[ noun ]
the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq
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The Iraqi News Agency also reported that Iranian artillery shelled residential areas in the southern port of Basra, the border town of Khanaqin and Sirwan in northeast Iraq throughout the night. It made no mention of casualties.
An Iraqi military spokesman said the Iranians shelled the positions of an infantry division in the southern port city of Basra, official Baghdad radio reported on Tuesday.
Dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks carrying hundreds of soldiers were seen crossing the border back into Iraq at the Safwan checkpoint, about 30 miles south of the Iraqi port city of Basra.
Millions of sandbags that protected buildings have been removed and the network of canals, which gave Basra the name "Venice of the East," have been dredged.
Dispatches from the official Iraqi News Agency quoted a military spokesman in Baghdad as reporting an Iranian offensive east of Fish Lake, an area northeast of Basra flooded several years ago to frustrate Iranian assaults.
IRNA said six missiles were fired during the night into the strategically important city of Basra and the border town of Mandali, 80 miles east of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
U.N. officials report that when they visit the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a Shiite stronghold, they hear gunfire at night.
In Washington, the State Department said that Iraqi counterattacks over the weekend appeared to push back Iranian forces from positions captured near the Iraqi port of Basra.
Baghdad's official Iraqi News Agency said Iraqi gunners shot down an Iranian F-5 fighter-bomber Tuesday over Iraq's battered southern port of Basra.
If the Iranian claim is confirmed, it would be Iraq's worst military setback since Iranian forces drove to within six miles of Basra, the southern regional capital, early last year.
The Iraqis drove the Iranians out of the Faw peninsula on April 18, ending a two-year occupation, and from a bridgehead around Salamchech east of the blockaded port city of Basra on May 25.
Anwar Saeed al-Hadithi, governor of Basra, said the new governor of Faw, Najib Mouhamad Salman, has already assumed office along with other government officials.
Its main gulf port of Basra is still blocked and its oil infrastructure damaged.
As military communiques from both sides indicated that heavy ground fighting was continuing for a third consecutive day, Tehran radio said that missiles struck Iraq's air force command in Baghdad and that military and economic targets were hit in Basra.
Its major port of Basra, heavily damaged during the war and closed since the start of the conflict, depends for its existence on the Shatt.
Iran said its troops made fresh gains in fighting near the Iraqi city of Basra, taking control of territory about six miles east of the southern port.
Later it also shelled the southern Iraqi port, Basra, and vowed to strike Baghdad.
Tehran Radio reported Iran also fired four missiles at "industrial and military installations" in the strategic southern Iraqi port of Basra, and two other border towns further north Sunday.
Iraqi communiques said Iranian artillery pounded the southern port of Basra and Al-Amarah during the night, killing "many civilians." The Iraqi News Agency said the Iranian shells rained down on densely populated residential areas in Basra.
Iraqi communiques said Iranian artillery pounded the southern port of Basra and Al-Amarah during the night, killing "many civilians." The Iraqi News Agency said the Iranian shells rained down on densely populated residential areas in Basra.
It said Revolutionary Guards artillery units hammered a string of cities and towns along the 730-mile war front, including Basra, Iraq's already devastated southern port city.
The Faw peninsula is 50 miles southeast of Iraq's major port city of Basra.
If you see a big nose, that's the best bird." He was looking for a carrier pigeon to cover the 255 miles between Baghdad and the southern port of Basra.
To State's discomfort, the Canadians' discovery surfaced just as Iraq was producing evidence that the Iranians were using American-made scuba equipment for military operations in the war zone near Basra.
Without Basra, Iraq would no longer be a Persian Gulf state.
The Iraqis have driven the Iranians out of their southern bridgeheads on the Faw peninsula, the Salamcheh sector in the south and the oil-rich Majnoon islands north of Basra in consecutive assaults in the past three months.
Western leaders have described them as a "human shield." The Britons said they knew of some Americans being held near the oil installation where they worked south of the Iraqi port of Basra.
Iran's War Information Headquarters in Tehran swiftly announced that "Iraq's military and economic centers" in Baghdad and Basra will be hit "within the next few hours" and urged civilians to evacuate areas around likely targets.
She said the fence extended from the northeastern Matla area, with one third of the Kuwait territory north of the fence, abutting Iraq's Basra region.
The wording of the reports was similar to when the Iraqis recaptured the southern Faw Peninsula on April 18 and drove the Iranians out of their hard-won bridgehead at Salamcheh, near the southern city of Basra, on May 25.

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