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unusual facts about Southern Iraq



Maliakal

The non-derivative name, Malik, is ubiquitous and found primarily along countries in the Arabian peninsula including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Southern Iraq, as well as in the Southeast Asian countries of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.


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Gavin Young

Young spent two years with the Ralli Brothers shipping company in Basra in Iraq before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

HMH-464

Additionally, the squadron had operated from the austere Forward Operating Base (FOB), Jalibah in Southern Iraq, and supported a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) in Al Kut, Iraq.

Hufaidh

Hufaidh is a mythical island in the marshes of southern Iraq, believed to exist by the Madan or Marsh Arabs.

Jalibah Southeast Air Base

After an exhausting night moving its entire fleet from Camp Coyote in Kuwait, the Army Reserve Unit spent its first day on Iraqi soil March 23 at Camp Viper, a base in American-controlled territory deep in southern Iraq.

Majnoon Island

Majnoon Island is an island in southern Iraq near Al-Qurnah that is a center for oil production of the Majnoon Oilfield.

Marbled Duck

In the east it survives in the Mesopotamian marshland in southern Iraq and in Iran (Shadegan Marshes - the world's most important site), as well as isolated pockets in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and further to the east in western India and western China.

Minorities in Iraq

When Saddam Hussein embarked on a war with Iran he dredged the Shi'i and Mandaean inhabited marshes of Southern Iraq, causing damage to the ancient culture of the Mandaean people who have lived amongst the reeds since Sumerian times.

Safwan Airfield Standoff

He chose Safwan Airfield in southern Iraq to hold a formal cease-fire ceremony, as a demonstration that the coalition was in control of the war.

Şanlıurfa

However, based on historical and archaeological evidence, the city of Ur is today generally known to have been in southern Iraq, and the true birthplace of Abraham is still in question.