The Basra Operations Command is an organisation of the Government of Iraq which coordinates both Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Interior security...

From September 2007 to April 2008, he was the commander of the Basra Operations Command, an Iraqi Army formation in control of all Iraqi Army and Interior...

siege of Basra, code-named Operation Karbala-5 (Persian: عملیات کربلای ۵) or The Great Harvest (Arabic: الحصاد الاكبر), was an offensive operation carried...

Vice-Marshal Smart was evacuated to Basra and then to India. Colonel Roberts assumed de facto command of the land operations at RAF Habbaniya after the departure...

The Battle of Basra began on 25 March 2008, when the Iraqi Army launched an operation (code-named Saulat al-Fursan, meaning Operation Charge of the Knights...

Brigade (former 9 Strategic Infrastructure Bde) 49th Brigade (4-4). Basra Operations Command – Basrah 8th Commando Division – Diwaniyah – The 8th Division is...

Motorized Division – Tikrit – split off from 4 Division in mid-2008. Basra Operations Command – Basrah 8th Commando Division – HQ Diwaniyah 10th Division – Nasiriyah...

fighters. The below operations were overseen by the brigade formation known as Special Air Service Troops: Operations in support of Operation Overlord, the...

Commander for Operation Veritas (British operations against the Taliban) in Afghanistan, his first direct experience of front-line operations overseas since...

The Battle of Basra lasted from 21 March to 6 April 2003 and was one of the first battles of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The British 7 Armoured Brigade...

The Joint Special Operations Command Task Force in the Iraq War was a joint U.S. and British special operations temporary grouping assembled from different...

Basra (Arabic: ٱلْبَصْرَة, romanized: al-Baṣrah) or Basrah is a port city in southern Iraq. It is the capital of the eponymous Basra Governorate, as well...

The Al Basra-class offshore support vessel (manufacturer designates as RiverHawk OSV 60) is a 60-meter (200 ft) multi-function offshore support vessel...

stalemate. After its failure to capture Basra in 1982, Iran launched Operation Kheibar in 1984 to capture the Baghdad-Basra highway. This resulted in the Battle...

attacks that lasted for 6 weeks. It was launched by Iran on 13 July 1982 near Basra and featured the use of human wave attacks in the largest land battle since...

817°E / 30.500; 47.817 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. Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi high command still were convinced that the main Iranian attack was towards Basra, and did not take word of the Iranian...

the larger Operation Dawn 8. The taking of the peninsula by the Iranians was a strong blow to Iraq's prestige whilst also threatening Basra from the south-east...

a British special forces detachment that carried out operations against Iraqi insurgents in Basra. In early November, only weeks before his death and shortly...

Company Army Reserve from Tampa, Florida. The battalion also took command of a camp on COB Basra and were in charge of all facilities and occupants to include...

as the Siege of Basra) commander of the vanguard forces. Kharrazi was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell during the Siege of Basra. During his adolescence...

mostly indecisive Dawn operations, Iran attempted to change tactics. Iran had launched numerous operations in 1983 around Basra and southern Iraq using...

Base), Fire Base (FB). Siege of U.K. bases in Basra Operation Telic Operation Telic order of battle "Operation Telic: British Forces Deployed". Britain's...

campaigns to eradicate the Azraqite rebels in the districts of Basra, Ahwaz and Fars. After operations against the Azraqites were concluded in 697, Habib moved...

Group. Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula (CJSOTF-AP), itself answers to Special Operations Command Central. Unless otherwise...

soldiers took part in the operations with another 2,000 in close proximity, in preparation for handing over security of the city of Basra to the Iraqi government...

Neville (2008). Special Operations Forces in Iraq. Osprey Publishing. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-1-84603-357-5. Rossiter, Mike, Target Basra , Corgi, 2009 ISBN 978-0552157001...

PJCC and Basra Palace were handed back to Iraqi control. They handed over to 4th Mechanised Brigade on 1 December 2007. The force was commanded by a three-star...

al-Mitla' District in the north, which was absorbed into Iraq's existing Basra Governorate, and the Kuwait Governorate in the south, which became Iraq's...

9th Regional Commando Battalion 3rd Special Operations Brigade (ISOF-3) – Responsible for operations in Basra, Babylon, Najaf, Maysan, Dhi Qar, and Muthanna...