Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Iraq on the Shatt al Arab near the Persian Gulf. A historic port, it was heavily damaged during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), the Gulf War, and the Iraq War.
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- proper noun A city and port in southeast
Iraq .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the second largest city in Iraq; an oil port in southern Iraq
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Examples
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BASRA - Residents heard several dozen explosions from apparent mortar attacks on British bases around the Shi'ite southern city of Basra.
A Problem Denied is a Problem Solved Garry 2006
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BASRA - A British soldier was killed and another wounded during an operation to seize a suspected "terrorist" in Iraq's restive southern city of Basra, 550 km 340 miles south of Baghdad, the British military said.
A Problem Denied is a Problem Solved Garry 2006
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BASRA, Iraq, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A move to establish the southern Iraqi city of Basra an autonomous region has failed to gather enough support to stage a referendum,
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* BASRA - A foreign civilian was killed in a rocket attack on a British military base in Basra in southern Iraq, Britain's Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
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10 November 2009 BASRA: Waterways in the Basra ports of Umm Qasr and Khor al-Zubair were rehabilitated, the public relations and media director at the Iraqi Ports Company said on Tuesday.
MP3Board.com 2009
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Against the backdrop of insane violence and bloodshed, it seems the murder of 133 women killed in Basra is a “drop in the bucket” in comparison to what some people say are tens of thousands of people being killed every year.
New "Democratic" Iraq More Dangerous For Women? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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I should add here that the "Iraqi Army" in Basra is actually controlled, for the most part, by the Badr Corps militia.
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But the Iraqi Army in Basra is mostly composed of another renegade militia -- the Badr Corps, an organization founded by Iran and answerable to ISCI -- the Shi'ite faction led by the Hakim family, Sadr's great rival.
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Against the backdrop of insane violence and bloodshed, it seems the murder of 133 women killed in Basra is a “drop in the bucket” in comparison to what some people say are tens of thousands of people being killed every year.
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"The amount of actual terrorism in Basra is very limited," Iraqi Defense Minister Gen. Abdul-Qader Mohammed Jassim Mifarji told reporters.
Through "toys" to the truth Richard 2006
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